DeShaun Watson has been ridiculous the last three weeks

Houston Texans rookie quarterback DeShaun Watson has been absolutely phenomenal in the past three weeks, living up to the hype…

Prior to the 2017 NFL Draft, many weren’t sold on DeShaun Watson as a professional quarterback.

The early reviews on Watson are in, and those who weren’t sold probably are by now.

The rookie out of Clemson started off his professional career slowly, looking a little overwhelmed as a passer but showing off his ability to run and make plays with his legs. Over the past three games, however, the narrative has shifted, and Watson has morphed into one of the NFL’s most productive passers and playmakers offensively.

In a loss on Sunday night to the Kansas City Chiefs, Watson looked arguably like the best player on the field at times.

Of course, the Chiefs made more plays, but Watson didn’t stop playing through the final seconds of the game, and ended up throwing a whopping five touchdown passes, his second consecutive week with five touchdowns.

Over the last three games, in fact, Watson has a total of 12 touchdowns and looks a lot like the guy we saw the past few years at Clemson. Look at some of these plays:

The first play, in particular, is impressive to me. Watson does a great job of stepping up to avoid pressure, but what you can’t really see in real time is that he switches the football over into his left hand to avoid being stripped before he switches back to his right hand and fires downfield for a perfect strike to Will Fuller.

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This Houston offense is going to have to make a lot of plays the rest of the season if they are going to contend in the AFC South. Losing Whitney Mercilus on Sunday was bad enough, but losing both Mercilus and J.J. Watt for the year in the same game is absolutely catastrophic for the Houston defense.

Their playoff chances seem slim at best without those guys defensively, but I truly believe Watson gives them a chance. He’s exactly the type of difference maker this team needed at the quarterback position, and as bad as their division is, I think a playmaker like Watson really gives them a chance.

The way Houston went about getting Watson was unconventional, to say the least, but it has paid off in a big way. Texans fans are forgetting already the bad memory of signing Brock Osweiler to a big money deal, and quickly becoming believers in the player Houston traded a future first round pick to get.

Watson is the real deal.