NFL’s embarrassment over Deshaun Watson has never been more obvious

The official NFL Twitter account seems to be avoiding posting Deshaun Watson highlights, never mentioning the QB while focusing on receivers catching TDs.ae

The fact that Deshaun Watson is playing NFL football this season is an embarrassment to the league. That much is clear.

Watson had his best game with the Browns so far on Sunday. He threw three touchdown passes as Cleveland downed the Commanders, 24-10. The NFL wasn’t keen on showing them.

Whoever was running the official NFL Twitter account, responsible for posting highlight plays throughout the day, made sure Watson was never celebrated, as Dov Kleiman pointed out.

The NFL is trying to act like Deshaun Watson doesn’t exist

The #NFL account usually shows the play highlights completely in full.

Deshaun Watson threw 3-TDs today

All are zoomed in to focus on the WR in action, without showing the QB throwing the ball, which is odd

Only in the 2nd do they show Watson for a moment, but not him throwing pic.twitter.com/NyV9Qyls2V

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 1, 2023

Here are the three highlights that the NFL tweeted from the game. Each was a Watson touchdown, only one of them even showed the QB. Amari Cooper was the headliner in two of them. The other tweet only referenced the team taking a 10-point lead.

A quick scroll through the rest of the highlights from the day makes it clear quarterbacks are usually the stars of tweets and the highlights included in them. Watson’s treatment is noticeably different.

There are two ways to interpret this. The first is that the NFL handed down a directive to minimize Watson’s involvement in highlights as much as possible. The second is that the person or people running NFL social media have taken it upon themselves to give the quarterback no glory this season.

If it’s the latter, then kudos to them. There isn’t much social media people can do when it comes to league suspensions, but keeping a man credibly accused of two dozen cases of sexual misconduct out of highlight packages is at least something.

Either way, this is another example of how embarrassing it is that Watson is playing. The league wanted to suspend him longer but ultimately lessened his punishment. Now they have to deal with the fact that Watson is in a Browns uniform throwing touchdown passes.