{"id":4466,"date":"2024-09-11T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/deshaun-watson-cleveland-browns-quarterback-strongly-denies-allegations-says-attorney\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:21:13","slug":"deshaun-watson-cleveland-browns-quarterback-strongly-denies-allegations-says-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/deshaun-watson-cleveland-browns-quarterback-strongly-denies-allegations-says-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Deshaun Watson: Cleveland Browns quarterback strongly denies allegations, says attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson &#8220;strongly denies&#8221; the latest sexual assault allegations made against him, his attorney said on Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An unidentified woman is seeking $1m (\u00a3764,000) in damages after filing a civil lawsuit against the 28-year-old in Houston, Texas on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident allegedly occurred while the pair were on a date in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Browns coach Kevin Stefanski, meanwhile, says Watson will face the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday after playing in last weekend&#8217;s season-opening defeat against the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stefanski said he was unaware of the allegations before the lawsuit was filed and had not considered leaving Watson out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cpvy9ev9vjgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson &#8220;strongly denies&#8221; the latest sexual assault allegations made against him, his attorney said on Wednesday. An unidentified woman is seeking $1m (\u00a3764,000) in damages after filing a civil lawsuit against the 28-year-old in Houston, Texas on Monday. The incident allegedly occurred while the pair were on a date in October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}