At its conclusion, the NFL regular season seems like a minuscule spat of time. It’s sixteen games across four months. That’s it. Yet throughout the road to the playoffs, fat segments of differentiation arise as each team tosses its 53 players around. For Deshaun Watson, the 2018 season was peculiar, one filled with twists and turns. Watson ended the year with 4,165 passing yards, 26 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions. He was sacked 62 times.
Watson started the year in Bill O’Brien’s spread shotgun passing offense. It’s an offense that has never consistently worked since O’Brien arrived in Houston, battered by blitz-heavy defensive attacks.