Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday that Deshaun Watson remains 'the leader' of the team even after the quarterback was removed from Sunday's game against the Colts.
Jake Trotter covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011 covering college football. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown Journal newspapers. You can follow him on Twitter @Jake_Trotter."I'm always going to be protective of my players, especially at the quarterback position," Stefanski said."Just felt like the right thing in that moment was to hold him out of that game."the rest of the game.
"They felt like the decision was best to let PJ go in and finish the game," Watson said afterward."PJ did a great job." Watson, however, has played in only nine full games for the Browns. He served an 11-game suspension last year for violating the league's personal conduct policy after he was accused by more than two dozen women of sexual assault and sexual misconduct during massage sessions.
After Watson left Sunday's game, the Browns didn't give him an injury designation and only announced that he had cleared the concussion protocol.
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