Deshaun Watson has announced the death of his father on the eve of the Cleveland Browns’ opening game of the new NFL season.
The superstar Browns quarterback, who was reportedly estranged from dad Don Richardson, took to his Instagram story on Friday to reveal the tragic news.
‘Rest in Peace Pops,’ he wrote along with heartbreak and praying emojis.
Cleveland are due to host the Dallas Cowboys in their first outing of the 2024 season on Sunday. It is unclear whether Watson’s devastating news will rule him out of the Week 1 fixture.
Back in 2017, the then-Houston Texans star opened up on his relationship with his parents and revealed that he rarely saw his father.
Deshaun Watson has announced the death of his father on the eve of Cleveland’s NFL opener
The Browns quarterback revealed the tragic news on his Instagram story on Friday
He told the Houston Chronicle when asked how many times he’d seen his dad: ‘Maybe five, at the most.
‘My mom was basically my mother and father, so I didn’t really pay too much attention to it. My friends had fathers.
‘But, for me, it was just kind of, “Hey, my mother is the one that I’m going to rely on and I’ll always focus on.”‘
Given his estranged relationship with dad Don, Watson instead chooses to use mom Deann’s surname.
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