Browns’ Coleman suffers another broken hand
Corey Coleman’s second NFL season is off to an eerily similar start to his first.
The Cleveland Browns’ top receiver broke his right hand during Sunday’s loss in Baltimore, and the 2016 first-round pick had surgery on Monday. He is not expected to play again for at least two months.
It’s the second year in a row Coleman has broken his right hand. While he fractured a different bone this time, Coleman’s injury occurred almost exactly a year to the day after he broke it during practice last September.
Coleman did not have surgery last year, but missed six games.
Meanwhile, rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer said he has a history of migraine headaches and has one or two a year. Unfortunately, his latest came on Sunday in his second NFL game, before a deafening, hostile crowd, and against the Ravens’ tenacious defense.
“That’s one of my biggest fears being a guy who does get chronic migraines, it was bound to happen sometime for me,” he said on Monday, a day after a migraine forced him out of a 24-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Kizer said he was
Injury front
• New England tight end Rob Gronkowski said the groin injury he suffered at New Orleans is not serious and pronounced himself as “day to day” regarding this week’s game against Houston.
• The New York Giants signed former Ohio State linebacker Curtis Grant from their practice squad because of a lower leg injury to starting middle linebacker B.J. Goodson, who had 18 tackles in a loss to Dallas last weekend. Goodson was hurt in practice this week. Grant, who led the Giants in tackles in the preseason, was waived in the final cut.
• Atlanta All-Pro Vic Beasley has a hamstring strain and was ruled out for this week’s game at Detroit, and he could be sidelined even longer.
Quarterback updates
• Coach John Fox will stay with Mike Glennon as Chicago’s starter, and the wait for No. 2 overall draft pick Mitchell Trubisky continues. Fox said the Bears (0-2) won’t be changing quarterbacks for their game against Pittsburgh this weekend despite a rough outing by Glennon in a 27-9 loss to Tampa Bay.
• Minnesota coach Mike Zimmer said that Sam Bradford’s injured left knee is getting better, but Zimmer is not sure when it will improve enough to allow the starter to return to the field. Backup Case Keenum struggled in the 26-9 loss to the Steelers on Sunday.
In the courts
• A federal judge overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement with former players said she is concerned about “deceptive practices” by claims service providers, lawyers, lenders and other groups seeking a share of the money.
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody will hold a hearing in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear from Christopher Seeger, who represented the class of more than 20,000 former NFL players now eligible for payments. Seeger has been investigating claims that unscrupulous third-party providers have been taking advantage of players with significant brain damage.
In a court order, Brody said she will weigh the legality of contracts signed by former players who were duped by “deceptive or misleading solicitations.”
• A federal judge in Frisco, Texas, has denied the NFL’s request to suspend his injunction that blocked a six-game suspension for Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant on Monday was expected and came after the NFL had already moved on to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans with the same request.
“back to normal” following the episode, which he said affected his vision in the first half and may have contributed to him throwing one of his three interceptions.