More than two weeks after requesting and receiving his release from the Houston Texans, JJ Watt appeared on Monday as if he could not utilize his next team. The three-time defensive player of the year, who has reportedly received several lucrative offers since hitting the open market, appears in his bio on Peloton, the cycling training service, to indicate his potential destinations to the Bills, Browns and Packers limited. However, an hour after rumors spread on social media, Watt did so apparently denied the proposal, tweeting: “I do not have a bike. Stop.”
Earlier Monday morning, the alleged Watt bio simply read: “SB56 … GB … CLE … BUF.” The abbreviated description seems to indicate that the long-time Texas standouts were on a trip to Super Bowl LVI with one of the three teams listed. John Clayton, an NFL insider, had earlier suggested that Bills and Packers were among the frontrunners for Watt’s services, although Clayton also included the Tennessee Titans as candidates for the five-time Pro Bowler, and that they were nowhere to be found in the alleged biography. was not found.
All three teams named Watt are expected to succeed in the 2021 off-season. All three were also a playoff game in 2020, and the Bills and Packers advanced to their respective conference games. Meanwhile, Cleveland is expected to have the most salary caps of the three teams.
The 31-year-old Watt spent the first ten seasons of his NFL career in Houston, where he led the league twice in pockets and earned a unanimous pick for the 2010 NFL All-Decade Team.