Deshaun Watson Week 3 Outlook - Commanders at Browns

By Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros), Thu, Sep 24th 2020, 10:07am EDT

Watson's receivers have dropped 12.5 percent of passes this year, which leads the NFL. He's also been sacked on a ridiculous 20 percent of his dropbacks. Just how bad is that? The Colts lead the league with a 13.2 percent sack rate. The matchup against the Ravens was brutal, but it doesn't get much better this week when they travel to Pittsburgh to play a Steelers defense that's allowed just one top-12 performance since Week 2 of last year. That's a span of 16 games where they've allowed just one QB1 performance. Not confidence inspiring for a quarterback coming off two mediocre performances. On top of that, his top receiver is dealing with a hamstring injury. It's quite remarkable, but since acquiring Minkah Fitzpatrick in Week 3 of last year, the Steelers haven't allowed a quarterback to average more than 7.53 yards per attempt in a game. That's nuts. It's also not good for Watson who doesn't chuck the ball up 40-plus times like some quarterbacks do. The only positive I can find here is that both Lamar Jackson and Robert Griffin rushed for 50-plus yards against the Steelers last year, while Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield both rushed for a touchdown, so we must hope Watson buries his head down and scrambles for a lot of yardage. He's more of a high-end QB2 this week than a must-start.