While most of the rest of the NFL prepare for games on Sunday, the Cleveland Browns continue to prepare for their Monday Afternoon Football (MAF?) game against the Las Vegas Raiders. The ever-moving roster process has until Monday at 2 PM to activate players off the reserve/COVID-19 list. They could also be adding players on after tests tomorrow.
The NFL and NFLPA agreed to new testing rules but those don’t take place until Week 15 ends. The Browns are doing everything they can to keep Myles Garrett from joining the large number of players on the COVID list by isolating him this week.
His bookend, Jadeveon Clowney, was not so lucky as to avoid the list. As reported earlier this week, Clowney was expected to go on the reserve list Friday. Instead, both Friday’s and Saturday’s official transaction lists came and went with no Clowney. That changed on Sunday with the team placing him officially on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
Not all bad news for Cleveland on that front as Wyatt Teller was activated from the list on Sunday joining Takk McKinley, Anthony Walker and David Njoku as returning over the last few days.
The team is still hopeful of getting more players back tomorrow in advance of the 2 PM deadline.
The team also signed offensive tackle Alex Taylor to their active roster to give them more depth with Jedrick Wills and James Hudson III on the reserve list. They also added safety Adrian Colbert to their practice squad. Colbert played in San Fransisco with defensive coordinator Joe Woods and has started 22 games for his career.
More moves are expected tomorrow before the team can set their roster and prepare for the game.