Browns Swap Teven Jenkins for Dylan Sampson in Latest Roster Shuffle
Adam Schefter reported the flurry of roster moves for Cleveland.
The are playing roster roulette again just in time for their Sunday matchup against the .
According to Adam Schefter, running back is officially activated from injured reserve after dealing with a knee injury. To make room, the team placed offensive guard Teven Jenkins on IR with a back issue, elevated defensive tackle Sam Kamara, and got the green light on safety Grant Delpit clearing concussion protocol.
Trading an offensive lineman for a running back is the kind of math that only makes sense if you actively hate your quarterback. Jenkins is a 321-pound wall who actually managed to play all 17 games for last season, so losing him is a brutal blow for an offense that already looks like it is operating in mud.
returning gives them a pass-catching option out of the backfield, but let us not pretend he is about to take over the league. He averaged a microscopic 2.7 yards per carry on 65 attempts last year. If you are eyeing his rushing props this weekend, you might want to remember he is essentially a slot receiver who happens to line up behind the center.
Getting Delpit back is the actual needle-mover for the real-life football game. The safety clearing protocol gives the Browns secondary a fighting chance against a offense that just put up 26 points on the . Kamara will also be there to eat some rotational snaps in the trenches.
heads to Nashville this Sunday trying to piece together a functional depth chart. If can catch a few checkdowns before the pass rush blows through the Jenkins-sized hole in the line, the might just keep this one from getting ugly.