Deshaun Watsons season-ending injury could be a Browns fantasy football boon

We need to get this out of the way right off the bat: We would never wish injury upon any player.That isn’t the point of this piece. But … it might seem like it at times in the space below, because the fallout (fall up?) of Deshaun Watson’s ruptured Achilles is wonderful for fantasy managers.

Simply wonderful! No, we know, it isn’t wonderful for Watson.We understand that.

He has a grueling road back. But … he has been an awful quarterback.Not just in fantasy, but in real life, too.

As any good fantasy manager will tell you, we don’t care that much if our fantasy QBs win games in the NFL.We just want those juicy fantasy points.

Interceptions hurt less than touchdowns help on fantasy boxscores. So yes, we are happy that someone else will be quarterbacking the Browns.And no, it isn’t because of … um … all the other stuff.

Look, the Madman surely isn’t alone in thinking Watson is a terrible person, allegedly.But … that doesn’t have to be why we’re happy.

Because we would never wish injury upon anyone.We can be happy because he has been bad at football — and, worse, bad at fantasy. If that weren’t enough, he also was the most overpaid, and Cleveland shipped a treasure trove of draft picks to trade for the right to overpay him.

And after all of that, he was one of the worst at his job.So, there’s that, too. We have all kinds of reasons to be happy.

We don’t have to focus on being happy that he is injured, because we would never do that. And make no mistake, we are ecstatic about the fantasy impact. Watson was miserable as a fantasy QB.He had just one week as a top-12 QB this season, and that was as QB11.

He averaged QB19.That is even worse than last year, when he averaged QB16 before a shoulder injury. There is history for a post-Watson fantasy bump.

Last season, Joe Flacco stepped in, and he averaged QB8 over five games — his worst week being QB13, and his last two were both in the top five. Jameis Winston has a lon...