Browns release veteran CB Carrie, 3 others

Colts add 2 more assistants to coaching staff

CLEVELAND, Feb 18, (AP): New Browns general manager Andrew Berry cleared $13 million in salarycap space by releasing veteran cornerback T.J. Carrie and three others players signed by former GM John Dorsey.

Along with Carrie, Cleveland terminated the contracts of tight end Demetrius Harris, guard Eric Kush and linebacker Adarius Taylor. starts. He was scheduled to make $2.49 million in 2020.

Kush began the season starting in the right guard spot that opened when Kevin Zeitler was traded to the Giants. Kush made seven starts but eventually lost his job to Wyatt Teller. Kush had one season remaining on a contract that was scheduled to pay him $2,075,000 in salary and bonuses.

Taylor was a contributor on special teams and in some defensive packages. He was set to make $2.4 million.

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Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich has added Matt Raich and Jerrod Johnson to his coaching staff.

Raich will serve as special defensive assistant-assistant defensive line coach while Johnson becomes the team’s offensive quality control coach.

Raich has spent most of the past two decades in the NFL, making stops at Pittsburgh, Arizona, Detroit and Cincinnati. He most recently served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers with the XFL’s St. Louis BattleHawks.

Johnson worked with the Colts last season as part of the league’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship initiative. He also worked with San Francisco’s quarterbacks in 2017 as part of the same initiative.

Johnson played with Dallas, Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia in the NFL as well as the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL and the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League. He coached at St. Thomas High School in Houston from 2015-18.