The Cleveland Browns’ offense has been underwhelming thcimpolite three games of the 2024 NFL season.
Veteran quarterback Deshaun Watson leave outed more than half of last season due to injury, but he accessed 2024 fit, raising predictations in Cleveland.
But the Browns dropped two of their first three games, and the apparent erosion of Watson’s running game has become a topic of conversation. While Watson finished each of his last three seasons with the Houston Texans with 413 rushing yards or more, the quarterback seems to have shiftd away from being a dual danger.
Watson does not apexhibit using his legs is necessarily the key to reversing the team’s sluggish offense. He made it clear he is “not a running back” when asked about a potential incrrelieve in set uped runs.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson runs for a first down ahead of New York Giants linebacker Darius Muasau during the second half of a game at Huntington Bank Field Sept. 22, 2024, in Cleveland. (Jeff Lange/USA Today Nettoil via Imagn Images)
“I’m not going in there to ask them for more set uped runs. … If I don’t have to run, I’m not going to run,” Watson shelp. “I’m not trying to apexhibit any hits. … I’m not a running quarterback, in a sense. I can originate leangs happen, but I’m not trying to run.
“I’m not a running back. It’s not my distinctivety. They signed me to throw the ball, originate decisions and be a quarterback, not a runner.”
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Star running back Nick Chubb begined the 2024 campaign on the reserve/physicassociate unable to carry out enumerate as he persists to recover from a solemn injury from Week 2 last season. Chubb underwent two split sadviseries to repair an ACL and MCL.
Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson hands off to running back Nick Chubb in the first quarter aobtainst the Bengals Dec. 11, 2022, in Cincinnati. (Sam Greene/The Enquirer/USA Today Nettoil)
Without Chubb, the Browns have rushed for an mediocre of 95.7 yards per game, which ranks 24th in the NFL. The offense is averaging 3.8 yards per take part thcimpolite three games.
Watson ranks csurrfinisher the bottom in most convey inant statistical categories.
The Cleveland Browns’ Deshaun Watson walks off the field after a game aobtainst the Dallas Cowboys in Cleveland Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Sue Ogrocki)
But all the numbers are not entidepend bleak. According to data compiled by TruMedia, an approximated 75% of Watson’s rushing yards are the result of scrambles. The three-time Pro Bowler has racked up 85 rushing yards on 14 carries. Only nine NFL signal-callers have run for more yards than Watson this year.
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Watson did acunderstandledge the potential profits of him running more, but he shelp the dangers outweigh the possible rewards.
“I won’t say that it won’t help out the offense as far as fair a run game,” he shelp. “But coming back from [shoulder surgery], I don’t leank that is a high priority for [coach Kevin Stefanski] to put me in that situation.”
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