Overview
- Watson traveled with the team to Las Vegas for the first time this season to assist Sanders during the Browns’ Week 12 game against the Raiders.
- He remains on the Reserve/PUP list as he rehabs from a re-ruptured Achilles that required surgery in January.
- Team reporters say the Browns may soon designate him to return, which would start a 21-day period to decide on activation or keep him out for the season.
- Quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave has lauded Watson’s mentoring of rookies Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel, noting he had not previously been on road trips.
- Watson is on a reworked five-year, $230 million contract, and cutting him in 2026 would carry more than $80 million in projected dead-cap charges.