Browns QB Deshaun Watson will miss the remainder of the 2024 season after tests confirmed a ruptured Achilles tendon

The Browns (1-6) face the Baltimore Ravens in Week 8.

Watson is currently in the third year of a five-year, $230 million guaranteed contract that he signed after being traded from the Houston Texans to the Browns in March 2022. He is scheduled to earn $92 million ($46) over the next two seasons. million in 2025 and 2026).

The 29-year-old signal caller failed to make the impact Cleveland was hoping for when the team sent three first-round draft picks and two other selections to Houston to acquire a QB in Watson who would play in three games made the Pro Bowl his first four seasons before sitting out the entire 2021 campaign amid a trade request and allegations of sexual misconduct during massage sessions.

Watson was suspended for the first 11 games of the 2022 season and fined $5 million for violating the NFL's conduct rules. In the six games following his suspension in 2022, Watson hasn't looked the same, completing a career-worst 58.2 percent of his passes.

The Browns' QB started just six games in the injury-plagued 2023 season, which required season-ending shoulder surgery last November, and his problems continued into 2024.

Watson entered Sunday with just five touchdown passes in six games for the Browns, who haven't scored 20 or more points in a game this season.