Deshaun Watson
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| Clemson Tigers No. 4 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class | Junior |
| Major | Communication Studies |
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| High school | Gainesville (GA) |
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| Date of birth | September 14, 1995 |
| Place of birth | Gainesville, Georgia |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 221 lb (100 kg) |
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Derrick Deshaun Watson (born September 14, 1995) is an American football quarterback. He played college football at Clemson.
Deshaun Watson was born on September 14, 1995. Watson attended Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Georgia. Watson arrived at Gainesville in the Fall of 2010. Gainesville Head Coach Bruce Miller had planned to start a rising junior to quarterback his spread offense, but Watson won the starting spot. Deshaun Watson was the first freshman quarterback Coach Miller had ever started. During his career he set numerous state records, including total yards (17,134), total touchdowns (218), career passing yards (13,077), and career passing touchdowns (155). He also rushed for 4,057 yards and 63 touchdowns. Watson excelled in his junior year, winning a state championship and earning accolades such as Junior All-American, 2014 Player to Watch, and 2014 Top 100 Recruit. During his Sophomore and Senior year he was able to lead the Gainesville High School Football Team to the state semi-finals.
Watson received offers from numerous colleges before committing to Clemson. Some of the offers he considered most seriously came from schools such as the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Florida State University, University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Louisiana State University, Ohio State, University of Oregon, and University of Southern California. Watson verbally committed to Clemson on February 1, 2012. He was ranked the number one quarterback recruit for the 2014 class by ESPN 300. Since his commitment to Clemson University in 2012, Deshaun Watson has frequently been compared to Clemson’s recently graduated, record-setting quarterback Tajh Boyd. Both Watson and Boyd are considered dual-threat quarterbacks, earning consistent yards in both the passing and rushing stats. They also both ran the spread offense and were given the power to choose which play the team ran depending on what they saw in the defense prior to snapping the ball.
Watson enrolled at Clemson in January 2014. He entered his true freshman season as the backup to starter Cole Stoudt, but still received extensive playing time. During his high school career, Watson wore number 4. At Clemson, that number had been retired after quarterback Steve Fuller graduated. However, Fuller allowed the number to come out of retirement so that Watson could wear it. Through three games, he had completed 29 of 41 passes for 479 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions, outperforming Stoudt. Watson was named the Tigers starter on September 21. In Watson's first career start vs. the North Carolina Tar Heels, Watson set a Clemson record with six touchdown passes and threw for 435 yards in route to a 50–35 victory.
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