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I don’t think anyone is accusing DeShaun Watson of a crime, he was sued by 20-25 women who were all brought in to give him massages, allegedly Watson took liberties with the women who all sued him civilly.

The Houston Texans were also part of the suit, the Texans recently settled their part of the lawsuits. Watson has also settled all the lawsuits.

Watson was held out all of last year by the Texans pending the outcome of all the lawsuits filed by the women.

Now that all the lawsuits have been settled, the NFL is trying to decide what type of punishment they are going to dish out to Watson.

The judge involved in this case was brought in to be an impartial arbitrator to decide the punishment.

In the recent past the NFL has dealt out massive suspensions to B-list players (i.e. not star QBs). For example Ezekiel Elliott (RB, Cowboys) who got suspended for 6 games because one woman accused him of domestic violence for which he was never charged. But he lost almost half a season.

But Watson ... man, over 20 accusers all with similar stories and some of them are gross. How can give him less than a full season? But I'll bet they will. Because he's a star and the NFL really doesn't care about player behavior except for PR value. If the PR hit from suspending a guy is worse than the PR hit for him being a scumbag then he gets nothing. See Tyreek Hill for reference.