{"id":554978,"date":"2026-03-30T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:17:07","slug":"jimmy-haslam-deshaun-watson-is-getting-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554978\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Haslam: Deshaun Watson is getting a fresh start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is singing a different tune about quarterback Deshaun Watson this year. <\/p>\n

While discussing the team\u2019s decision to trade for Watson and sign him to a fully guaranteed contract at the league meetings last year, Haslam called it \u201ca big swing and miss\u201d that put the team in a hole. Watson missed the entire 2025 season after tearing his Achilles twice, but remains under contract and the word from Cleveland has been that he will have a chance to earn the quarterback job heading into the 2026 season. <\/p>\n

Haslam sounded on board with that plan while in Arizona on Monday. Haslam said that he could have phrased things differently about Watson\u2019s time in Cleveland because the quarterback has never lacked effort and that he will get a \u201cfresh start\u201d under new head coach Todd Monken.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe certainly had the ability<\/a> at one point, and we\u2019re cautiously optimistic,\u201d Haslam said, via Daniel Oyefusi of ESPN.com. <\/p>\n

Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel are the other in-house options for the Browns right now, although General Manager Andrew Berry suggested that group will grow<\/a> when he spoke to reporters over the weekend. The direction the Browns take with any outside move will likely help determine just how much of a chance Watson has to win the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is singing a different tune about quarterback Deshaun Watson this year. While discussing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-554978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}