Deshaun Watson announces father’s death days before Browns’ season opener [Video]

When Deshaun Watson takes the field Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, he’ll be doing so with a heavy heart.

The Cleveland Browns quarterback announced on social media Friday his father, Don Richardson, had died.

“Rest in Peace Pops,” Watson wrote on an Instagram story.

Watson, 28, was reportedly estranged from his father. He told the Houston Chronicle in 2017 he rarely saw his father.

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“Maybe five (times), at the most,” Watson said.

“My mom was basically my mother and father, so I didn’t really pay too much attention to it. My friends had fathers. But, for me, it was just kind of, ‘Hey, my mother is the one that I’m going to rely on and I’ll always focus on.’ ”

Instead of using Richardson as his surname, the quarterback uses his mother’s last name.

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