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Cleveland's massive gamble on Deshaun Watson is a straight-up business decision

Can Deshaun Watson stay out of trouble?

Not just with sexual assaults, but essentially any kind of off-field incident that after facing 22 civil lawsuits for an array of sexual misconduct allegations, yet almost assuredly returning to the NFL in 2022, could all but end his career?

That’s it. That’s Cleveland’s five-draft-pick, $230 million, potential owner-humiliating and front office career-ending bet.

Is this abhorrent, albeit not criminal, behavior limited to a certain situation and/or interaction — Watson’s hiring of private massage therapists?

Or is that lack of even basic respect for women, that desire for power and violence, that egotistical thinking, that absence of concern for anything other than himself .