NEW YORK — Roger Goodell’s appointee in the Deshaun Watson appeal, former N.J. attorney general Peter Harvey, could drop the hammer of an indefinite suspension plus a major fine on the Cleveland Browns quarterback this week.
Or Harvey could marginally increase Watson’s six-game suspension, handed down by neutral judge Susan Robinson, and reveal this process to be more of a negotiated compromise than the league and union have portrayed it to be.
Miami-based attorney Brad Sohn, who has litigated several cases covering football’s collective bargaining agreement, thinks it will be the latter: something like 8-to-10 games plus a huge fine.
