Deshaun Watson Fantasy Football Outlook (2023)

By Pat Fitzmaurice (FantasyPros), Fri, Sep 1st 2023, 10:35am EDT

The 2022 version of Deshaun Watson was a far cry from the early-career Watson who finished top five in QB fantasy scoring in each of his first three seasons as a starter. Amid allegations of sexual assault, Watson didn't play in 2021 and served an 11-game suspension in 2022 before making a Week 13 debut for the Browns against his old team, the Texans. Watson was predictably rusty, producing numbers befitting a fantasy backup over a small sample size. It's reasonable to assume that Watson will look at least a little more like the dynamic dual-threat QB he used to be, but it would be a leap of faith to assume that he'll be as effective as he was from 2018 to 2020.