{"id":477261,"date":"2023-01-08T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=477261"},"modified":"2023-01-08T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:34:21","slug":"challenge-facing-deshaun-watson-as-browns-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/challenge-facing-deshaun-watson-as-browns-qb","title":{"rendered":"Challenge facing DeShaun Watson as Browns QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) &#8211; It&#8217;s a little different against Cleveland in this matchup. The Steelers discuss the challenge of facing DeShaun Watson for the first time as the Browns quarterback. Even with some moderate success under Jacoby Brissett, Watson immediately became the starter when the suspension ended. He is 3-2 including knocking Washington out of the playoffs on New Year&#8217;s Day with a three touchdown, no interception performance, he also rushed for 31 yards. &#8220;Watson is an athletic force in the backfield,&#8221; said Steelers defensive captain Cam Heyward. &#8220;He can throw any ball. He can get out of any situation. You have to make sure you get full body weight because he will shrug off defenders.&#8221; &#8220;Obviously, stepping into a stadium with Deshaun Watson has our attention, what he brings and getting a feel for him,&#8221; said Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a lot of exposure to him, obviously. The first in-stadium exposure is going to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Steelers are saying about their first matchup with Watson as the Cleveland QB, what he did last week &amp; the other major factor with the Browns O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}