“Deshaun Watson, far from facing serious consequences, is richer than he has ever been,” louisahthomas writes, and “more powerful than he was before a series of women told the police and the press what he had done to them.”
On April 6, 2021, Ashley Solis, the first of dozens of women to accuse the N.F.L. quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct during a massage-therapy session, appeared at a press conference and gave annot only of what she said Watson had done to her in the room but what happened in the aftermath. The memory of the session continued to haunt her. “Flashes of Watson’s face rush to me in a moment,” she said. “I think of his penis touching me—which sends me into a tailspin.
Before the N.F.L.’s 2021 season, Watson asked the Texans to trade him. Then the accusations against him began to make their way through the legal system, and Watson sat out all seventeen games that year. But, after the first grand jury declined to indict him on criminal charges, the Cleveland Browns signed him to a fully guaranteed, two-hundred-and-thirty-million-dollar contract, one of the largest in N.F.L. history.
Those who believe that Watson has to be held more accountable than this must now hope that Roger Goodell, the N.F.L. commissioner, will appeal Robinson’s decision and impose a suspension of his own. It is not out of the question: the league’s collectively bargained disciplinary process gives the commissioner the final say after an appeal, and the commissioner’s office had reportedly sought an indefinite suspension for Watson—or, at minimum, twelve games, plus a large fine.
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