{"id":652259,"date":"2026-05-19T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:31:26","slug":"browns-hc-todd-monken-qb-deshaun-watson-already-on-track-on-the-field-reportedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652259\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns HC Todd Monken, QB Deshaun Watson already on track on the field, reportedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, <a>transcribed by Bleacher Report<\/a>, not only has Watson been given a fresh start, but Monken and Watson have \u201chit it off\u201d during the early time together:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201c[Deshaun Watson] will be a factor in OTAs when they start going with first-team reps, second-team reps,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported Sunday on SportsCenter. \u201cSo, he\u2019s been a factor already on the practice field. I\u2019m told he\u2019s hit it off with Todd Monken, who\u2019s got an offensive concept, some elements that Watson has run in the past and been his best at; a little bit of a departure from what they were running with Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Stefanski\u2019s system may have been an issue for Watson, his performance on the field and injuries that kept him off of it were real as well. Watson has only played 19 games for Cleveland since being acquired, missing all of the 2025 season and a majority of the other three (suspension, injuries). In those three seasons, the former Clemson Tiger completed just 61% of his passes with 19 TDs and 12 INTs while being sacked 70 times, over 3.5 per game played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monken has made it clear that he would like to have a clear starter at quarterback heading into training camp. As of now, all of the reporting seems to be leaning toward Watson being that guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, transcribed by Bleacher Report, not only has Watson been given a fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[242483,208832,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-652259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-cleveland-browns-news","tag-cleveland-browns-rumors","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652259","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=652259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}