David Andrews Fuentes AKA OpTic D3MON

Watson is starting in the final year of a fully guaranteed $230M deal with massive dead money still attached. Monken can say he “gives the best chance to move the ball” and that he saw more at the top end, but the organization has every financial reason to keep giving him the snaps while the guarantees are still on the books. Shedeur didn’t “lose” in a vacuum. The coaching staff has repeatedly praised both as starting-level options, Monken has kept Shedeur as the clear QB2 even after Gabriel returned, and external markets (Polymarket trade interest) still price him with real value. The “he’s just on the bench because he lost” framing ignores the contract reality and the fact that no other 5-2 team is this invested in protecting a high-guaranteed veteran at the expense of the younger option behind him.