{"id":277640,"date":"2025-11-12T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:16:08","slug":"report-deshaun-watson-is-making-progress-but-not-ready-to-practice-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277640\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Deshaun Watson is making progress but not ready to practice yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browns coach Kevin Stefanski left uncertainty on Monday about whether Deshaun Watson is ready to return to practice.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com clarifies that although the quarterback has made \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2025\/11\/browns-not-opening-deshaun-watsons-21-day-practice-window-this-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">excellent progress<\/a>\u201d in his comeback from his twice ruptured Achilles, the team will not open Watson\u2019s 21-day practice window this week.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, who is on the reserve\/physically unable to perform list, first must pass his medical exams before being cleared for practice, per Cabot.<\/p>\n<p>He has rehabbed at the team facility and has attended quarterback meetings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he wants to play a lot of football again,\u201d Browns quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave said late last month. \u201cHe feels like he\u2019s got a lot of tread left on his tires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watson has played only 19 games since the start of the 2022 season, going 9-10 with 19 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Dillon Gabriel will make his sixth start on Sunday against the Ravens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns coach Kevin Stefanski left uncertainty on Monday about whether Deshaun Watson is ready to return to practice.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-277640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}