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Browns Place Deshaun Watson on PUP List as He Is Expected to Miss the Season
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO, JUL 23 – Deshaun Watson will miss the entire 2025 NFL season due to physical inability to perform, impacting the Browns' roster and salary cap planning, sources said.
- On Tuesday, the Cleveland Browns placed quarterback Deshaun Watson on the physically unable to perform list as veterans reported to training camp.
- Following his Achilles rupture in January, Watson faces the prospect of missing the entire 2025 season during recovery.
- Rehab setbacks have emerged, and he has been rehabbing at the team complex and attending meetings with Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.
- Additionally, Cleveland designated defensive tackle Mike Hall Jr. on the PUP list and wide receiver David Bell on the non-football injury list.
- Even after his contract ends following 2026, Watson’s deal will burden Cleveland’s salary cap for years, and Wednesday’s first practice resumes the four-way quarterback competition.
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Browns place Deshaun Watson on PUP list
Competition for the starting quarterback job in Cleveland will not include the Browns’ highest-paid QB, Deshaun Watson. Watson was officially placed on the physically unable to perform list as training camp gets underway in Berea, Ohio, with Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookies Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel vying to be the QB1 when the regular season begins Sept. 7 against the Cincinnati Bengals. Watson was rehabbing a torn Achilles when …
Browns put Watson on PUP list
BEREA — Deshaun Watson was placed on the physically unable to perform list by the Cleveland Browns as veterans reported to training camp on Tuesday. Watson could potentially miss the entire 2025 season while recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered in January. That occurred just three months after he initially injured it against Cincinnati. Watson is 9-10 since being acquired by Cleveland in 2023 with 19 touchdowns, 12 interceptions a…
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Browns place Deshaun Watson on PUP list as he is expected to miss the season
Deshaun Watson was placed on the physically unable to perform list by the Cleveland Browns as veterans reported to training camp on Tuesday.
Mike Hall Jr., Deshaun Watson and David Bell all placed on injured lists to start Browns training camp
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Browns defensive tackle Mike Hall Jr., Deshaun Watson and receiver David Bell were all placed on injury lists Tuesday as the Browns veterans reported for training camp.
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