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Answering the big questions around Deshaun Watson's injury

Related Topics: Mina Kimes, Deshaun Watson

If you're an NFL fan with a pulse, your heart sank a bit on Thursday as you read about Deshaun Watson going down for the year with a torn ACL. Every injury is bad, of course, but Watson may very well have been the most pleasant surprise of an often-dour 2017 season. As an exciting young player playing in a city that has been through a roller coaster through tragedy to the joy of Wednesday night's World Series victory, there might be no player in the league neutral fans would have wanted to see stay healthy more than Clemson's national champion quarterback.