BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns are set to begin their on-field preparations for this week’s Monday Night Football game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, but they will do so still hampered by injuries.
Browns receiver Jarvis Landry remains sidelined after suffering a head injury in last Sunday’s 40-25 victory over the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, and Cleveland’s starting cornerbacks, Denzel Ward and Greedy Williams, still are working their ways back from hamstring injuries.
“He’s still in the concussion protocol,” Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said of Landry in his pre-practice press conference at team headquarters in Berea.
Landry suffered the concussion after three stellar quarters against the Ravens.
Landry turned his 10 targets into eight receptions and a single-game career high 167 yards in the Browns’ most prolific offensive showing ever in a game at Baltimore. Landry was the game’s leading receiver and registered the longest pass play of the afternoon, a 65-yarder in the waning seconds of the second quarter that helped set up Austin Seibert’s 24-yard field goal that put the Browns up, 10-7, at halftime.
Two days before taking on the reigning NFC Champion Los Angeles Rams at FirstEnergy Stadium on September 22, Ward and Williams were two of the three Browns defensive backs who suffered hamstring injuries during the same drill.
Both Ward and Williams have missed the last two games, and in their absence, veteran defensive backs T.J. Carrie and Terrance Mitchell have held down the starting cornerback spots, and they will continue to do so in practice, at least on the first day of work Thursday.
In the last two games, Carrie has registered 14 total tackles, including 13 solo stops and one assist with two passes defended and an interception. Mitchell has made eight total stops, including seven solo tackles, since Ward and Williams went out of the lineup.
“They’re still kind of day to day right now,” Kitchens said of Ward and Williams. “We’ll see where we are at the end of the week.”