With Cleveland repelling Kareem Hunt, Deshaun Watson's legal situation puts the Browns in an unstable situation very close to a training camp. ..
"Yes, that's definitely stressful for them," Hunt said Wednesday according toCleveland.com. Wednesday was also the second day ofWatson's disciplinary hearing and discussed with the NFL about multiple allegations of sexual assault against him.
"It's hard because they're trying to understand what they're going to get for the season and what they want to play," Hunt said. "Deshawn and [Backup] Jacoby [Brisset] have different plays, different playbooks, different things you can do with quarterbacks."
Last week, Watson's lawyer said a former Texans. Quarterbackhas announced that it has agreed to settle 20 of the 24 civil lawsuitsfiled against him by a massage therapist alleging sexual misconduct. Watson has maintained his innocence since the allegations were first published in March 2021. The Associated Press, meanwhile, says the NFL wants aoutage for at least a year, .
"That is, I don't know much about the whole situation," Hunt said, saying he's focused on himself and feels 100 percent after suffering a calf and ankle injury last season. Added. "If he misses it, it's the idea of the next person. I'm ready to play, and I know the other members of the team are still ready to play. There was no Deshawn last year or a few years ago.
"We [Talk about it] but more worried about ourselves. It's a business, guy, that's the biggest thing. You have to worry about yourself, because you have to. For example, you couldn't be here. "
Hunt said he hadn't told Watson about the process of waiting for the league to pause. The running back Pro Bowl was cut by the Chiefs, andwas suspended for eight games in 2018 after his video of hitting a woman at a Cleveland hotel released by TMZ.
"Yes, I did talk a little," Hunt said. "I'm going to keep it between us, but yeah. I wish him good luck because there are so many. Raise your head and tell me hopefully it works."
Browns' acquisition of Watson — in Marchthey said the Texans were in quarterback For, then inked him into a fully guaranteed transaction worth $ 230 million — as a result Baker Mayfield demanded the transaction. Mayfield, who was first drafted overall by Cleveland in 2018,this week at a youth camp in Norman, Oklahomawhile both sides were "ready to move forward" while discussing their situation. I believe in it. " However, the door to play in Cleveland if Watson is interrupted throughout the season.
"No, I think we need to reach out some way for that to happen," Mayfield said, referring to the brass of the Browns.
"I talked to him a month or two ago," Hunt said of Mayfield, who remains on the Browns list but was exempt from the team's mandatory mini-camp earlier this month. rice field. "He's fine. He said he was pretty well cured by the [shoulder] surgery he had done. He's fine now."