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Agent’s Take: Deshaun Watson’s potential suspension carries varying financial ramifications

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A crucial step in resolving Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s playing status for the 2022 season is taking place. A disciplinary hearing to determine whether Watson violated the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy conduct started on Tuesday.

Watson had been facing 24 civil lawsuits alleging inappropriate sexual conduct by him during massage sessions that took place while he was with the Houston Texans. Twenty of the 24 cases were settled last week. Two grand juries in Texas declined to pursue criminal charges against Watson, who has denied any wrongdoing, earlier this year. 

Retired U.S. District Court judge Sue L. Robinson, who was jointly appointed by the NFL and NFLPA, is conducting the hearing. The proceeding is expected to last several days.

Procedurally, the NFL was required to inform Robinson, Watson and the NFLPA of its recommended discipline at least 10 days prior to the hearing, according to the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement. There are multiple reports of the NFL seeking an indefinite suspension that lasts at least one year. Talks between the NFL and the NFLPA/Watson prior to the hearing failed to produce a settlement.

There isn’t a set timetable for Robinson to issue a ruling. Ideally, a ruling will occur before the Browns open training camp on July 27. A finding of no policy violation, which doesn’t seem likely, would be the final resolution of the case.

Both sides have three business days to file an appeal if discipline is imposed. Commissioner Roger Goodell or someone he appoints as his designee would preside over the appeal, with the latitude to increase, decrease or affirm Robinson’s punishment.

Signing bonus forfeiture/voiding of guarantees

Whether Watson receives a yearlong suspension or is allowed to play football this season, the $44.965 million signing bonus in the fully guaranteed five-year contract worth $230 million he

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Deshaun Watson reportedly achieved with at least 66 gals for massages

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HOUSTON — Previous Houston Texans and recent Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson satisfied with at minimum 66 girls for massages throughout a span of 17 months from late 2019 to early 2021, a in depth report from The New York Situations on Tuesday alleges. The Situations also experiences that Texans crew safety provided a nondisclosure arrangement to Watson that he afterwards utilized in the course of massages, as nicely as a hotel room in which at least 7 gals achieved the star quarterback for sessions.

The report follows two further civil lawsuits currently being filed versus Watson in the past 7 days, boosting his range of outstanding lawsuits to 24. All of people satisfies are alleging possibly sexual misconduct or sexual assault. The most recent litigation from the past seven times lifted a handful of new allegations, which includes that Watson as soon as entered into a settlement negotiation that would have compensated 22 accusers $100,000 each and every to settle out of courtroom, and that he solicited “more than a hundred” massages with “strangers” via social media.

Tuesday’s report from the Occasions attracts much more depth to how Watson was allegedly interacting with some of the females who offered massages, which include promises that he “begged” for oral intercourse and repeatedly sexualized massage sessions with a wide swath of gals who achieved with him. The content of the report seems to shed gentle on the most latest lawsuit submitted by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the 24 women of all ages currently suing Watson.

In the 24th fit filed Monday, Buzbee details a narrative in which Watson allegedly shown a pattern of interacting with females underneath the guise of massage therapy prior to shifting his periods towards sexual encounters. The Times’ report particulars some of those people alleged

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