The Browns have been dealing with some injury issues, but today was the first official domino to fall as the Browns reported that giant left guard Eric Steinbach had back surgery. Granted, I have major concerns about Brandon Jackson when the Browns say “turf toe” because that is one of those injuries that has a tendency to linger for a very long time. Josh Cribbs didn’t have turf toe a year ago, but you saw how he was bothered by his toe injury all year long last year. Even those two things pale in comparison to the Browns trying to replace Eric Steinbach.
The Browns pretty well tipped their hand yesterday to the Eric Steinbach situation when they claimed Oniel Cousins off of waivers yesterday. It also makes their trade for John Greco to look that much more prudent. The Browns also have fifth round draft choice Jason Pinkston available, and it appears that he will get the first crack at the job.
It might be surprising that the Browns would choose 23-year old...
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