Deshaun Watson Invokes Fifth Amendment in Sexual Misconduct Depositions

Deshaun Watson, one of the N.F.L.’s best young quarterbacks, has not played in a game since the final week of the 2020 regular season.Credit...Ed Zurga/Associated PressHOUSTON — Deshaun Watson, a star N.F.L. quarterback who has been accused by two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage appointments, sat down for the first time for depositions in two lawsuits in his lawyer’s office on Friday morning.

He entered unseen by the half-dozen or so media members camped outside of the downtown skyscraper that houses the office of his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, who had previously said the depositions would be a “worthless exercise” because he advised Watson to invoke his Fifth Amendment right…