Browns’ Landry targets homestand for return
It was cast aside after a week and a half, but Jarvis Landry is still angry about the knee brace.
The Monday after he sprained the medial collateral ligament in his knee in a Sept. 19 victory over the Houston Texans, the Browns’ five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver took to Twitter to express his dismay.
“Every Time I put this brace on somebody gon have to pay for it in the near future,” he tweeted. The message was followed by three purple devils and the hashtag #Offline.
“Fortunately, I’m out of the brace, but [there] was a period where I had to put it on to walk. I had to put it on to go up and down the stairs,” Landry said
Tuesday. “Then on game day, I took it off because I was trying to be the little solider on the field so nobody saw me with it on. It’s frustrating.
“That’s a real tweet, though. When I come back, somebody got to see me.”
That important date remains uncertain.
Landry has spent the required three games on injured reserve but still isn’t sure when he will be cleared to return. Landry said he is “day to day.”
He wasn’t allowed to travel to Los Angeles for Sunday’s 47-42 loss to the Chargers at Sofi Stadium because of his rehab schedule and the possibility the knee would swell during the long flight.
“We’ve got three home games this next little turn, so it will be a perfect time somewhere in there if I can get back,” he said. “At the end of the day, the team and myself and my camp, we’re smart about the decisions about coming back or not and when that will be.”
Currently in his eighth NFL season, Landry, 28, had never missed a game until 2020, when being a high-risk close contact of linebacker B.J. Goodson landed Landry on the reserve/covid-19 list for a Dec. 27 road loss to the New York Jets. Pride in his dependability has made this layoff a challenge.
“It’s been extremely tough. But I’ve been so focused in my rehab and making sure I can get back as quickly as possible that the weekdays kind of fly by,” he said. “Sundays have definitely been the hardest day. But it’s always good when you’re winning, and this past week we didn’t do that, so it was a little bit tougher. But the other two weeks, we pulled it out. It was fun to watch, but it was definitely hard.”