Browns Urged to Keep Deshaun Watson as Starter After Loss

WHO:

Draft Sharks - Deshaun Watson is the Browns quarterback expected to start against the Texans.

Draft Sharks - Shedeur Sanders is the Browns quarterback whose performance made the starting role a subject of debate.

Pro Football Network - Tony Rizzo, a Browns analyst, backed Watson as the team’s starter.

NBC Sports - Browns head coach Todd Monken did not confirm the team’s quarterback plan.

NBC Sports - Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reported the plan for Watson to return to the starting lineup.

WHAT:

Draft Sharks - The Browns plan to start Watson against the Texans.

Pro Football Network - Rizzo urged Monken to stick with Watson after the Browns’ loss to the Saints; the article headline quotes him as saying, “Wouldn’t go back to (Shedeur) Sanders.”

Pro Football Network - Sanders threw for 297 yards and two touchdowns against the Saints.

NBC Sports - The Browns lost to the Saints, 23–22, in overtime.

NBC Sports - Sanders started and completed 19 of 31 passes for 297 yards and two touchdowns.

NBC Sports - Monken said he was proud of Sanders’s performance but declined to say whether it was enough to prompt a lasting change at quarterback.

WHERE:

Draft Sharks - The Browns are scheduled to face the Texans.

Pro Football Network - Sanders’s cited passing performance was against the Saints.

NBC Sports - The Browns’ loss was against the Saints.

WHY:

Draft Sharks - Sanders’s performance made the Browns’ quarterback choice a debate.

NBC Sports - Watson had cleared concussion protocol but was inactive after missing two practices during the week.

HOW:

NBC Sports - Fowler reported that the Browns planned to return Watson to the starting lineup; Monken had not confirmed the plan.

NBC Sports - Monken avoided answering questions about the quarterback plan after the overtime loss.

Cleveland plans to return Deshaun Watson as its starter against the Texans, ESPN reports. The move follows Shedeur Sanders’s strong game: 297 passing yards and two touchdowns. Sanders started in Cleveland’s overtime loss to New Orleans, while coach Todd Monken withheld confirmation.