Browns ask Deshaun Watson to play Senior Bowl, Watson declines

[Iggloo]

I see you working Deshaun. Nice try young man. But you cannot escape your future as a drone in the factory of sadness.

Browns coach Hue Jackson said on Sunday that he won't hold Watson's decision against the QB.

"There are going to be other guys that are not participating either, so I won't hold it against him," Jackson told cleveland.com. "I don't think that's the right thing to do. He's still a draftable player, there's still a process we have to go through to evaluate him and see if he can fit here with the Cleveland Browns."

Report: Browns asked Deshaun Watson to play in Senior Bowl

 

[rmilia1]

If the 40 games they've seen in college aren't enough to grade him out I hardly think playing the Senior Bowl is going to help them figure it out

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Man, if that ain't the absolute perfect picture

 

[Shanemansj13]

Another QB where his career will be absolutely destroyed if he goes to the Browns

FML

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

I would do whatever I could to avoid Cleveland as well

 

[skinzfan]

I saw a glimmer of hope in Cleveland's play last year

 

[redseat]

If the 40 games they've seen in college aren't enough to grade him out I hardly think playing the Senior Bowl is going to help them figure it out

Well, they are the Browns... so.....

 

[mcnabb7542]

Aw someone will come out of know where when the process begins and he'll be an after thought to the Browns!

 

[ATL96Steeler]

Maybe it doesn't matter, but most big board are showing this guy as a Jr.

 

[Wamu]

 

[Wamu]

 

[Wamu]

 

[RobBase]

I think it'd be a mistake to take him 1st overall anyways. They probably wanted him to play to see how well he picked up their playbook. The year the Lions coached the Senior Bowl, Ziggy Ansah started at RE in the Lions D and dominated the game. Few months later he was a Lion.

 

[shopson67]

Maybe it doesn't matter, but most big board are showing this guy as a Jr.

He is a junior.

 

[cdumler7]

If the 40 games they've seen in college aren't enough to grade him out I hardly think playing the Senior Bowl is going to help them figure it out

There is still a lot of great evaluation they could do if he was at the Senior Bowl. They can get to know him personally over a week's period. They can get him into their playbook earlier if say they did decide to draft him and see how he handled it. All you can see on tape to a degree is the talent of the player. You don't get to know the person that is the player. While I'm sure they will do their due diligence in checking his background and such before the draft nothing quite like getting that 1-on-1 time like you can at the Senior Bowl.

 

[Kumquat]

Pretty sure the dude will be a bust at the pro level anyways.


So he seems a lock to be drafted by the Browns

 

[ATL96Steeler]

He is a junior.

Yep...now I understand why he was invited...he's graduated already.

If you're going to be a 1st round pick and I think he will be, why risk injury in the Sr. Bowl? I don't blame any of those guys.

 

[ATL96Steeler]

There is still a lot of great evaluation they could do if he was at the Senior Bowl. They can get to know him personally over a week's period. They can get him into their playbook earlier if say they did decide to draft him and see how he handled it. All you can see on tape to a degree is the talent of the player. You don't get to know the person that is the player. While I'm sure they will do their due diligence in checking his background and such before the draft nothing quite like getting that 1-on-1 time like you can at the Senior Bowl.

All of that is true, but most guys projected in the 1st rd imo are best served not to risk injury in that game.

At best the Browns could be looking at him with #12 imo....too high by many projections I've seen, but the Browns must come away from this draft with a legit starting prospect...if not week 1, sometime in the '17 season.

 

[cdumler7]

Yep...now I understand why he was invited...he's graduated already.

If you're going to be a 1st round pick and I think he will be, why risk injury in the Sr. Bowl? I don't blame any of those guys.

You risk injury because there is no better place for players to get evaluated by teams than the Senior Bowl. Teams get to see you go against some of the top players in college football and see who truly separates themselves. Yes the tape is still the biggest part of the evaluation but this is also one of the first places they get to interview and really get to know these players personally.

Also this is a great place for small school kids to make a huge name for themselves. Quite a few small school prospects at the Senior Bowl this year and a few you will see rise into the top-3 rounds because of this week.

 

[PDay8810]

Yep...now I understand why he was invited...he's graduated already.

If you're going to be a 1st round pick and I think he will be, why risk injury in the Sr. Bowl? I don't blame any of those guys.

I don't blame um but I think it sends the wrong message more often than not.
Way to many now play for the $$. I'd prefer to draft a guy who loves the game of football and the competition.