Browns coach Todd Monken has spent much of his career in the college ranks. Things have changed dramatically since then, however.<\/p>\n
He currently has a first-year player on the roster who has entered the transfer portal, after winning an injunction this week that has given him another year of college football.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan, isn\u2019t this shit crazy?\u201d Monken told reporters after Saturday\u2019s preseason contest against the Bills, a game in which Wright didn\u2019t play. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say. As far as I know, he\u2019s had a medical issue that wasn\u2019t allowing him to practice. That\u2019s a medical issue. It has nothing to do with me. He was cleared, so we dressed him just in case we had to have him. . . .<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. I wondered why Lane Kiffin reached out to me a week ago, now I know. I didn\u2019t call him back; I guess I should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiffin\u2019s LSU is indeed one of the programs that has been trying to set the stage to create room for first-year NFL players who could return to college for another season. <\/p>\n
Because even though the system craves a return to something that seems normal, the coaches want to win now. Those who can take advantage of the current chaos can acquire a legitimate edge in the quest to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns coach Todd Monken has spent much of his career in the college ranks. Things have changed dramatically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-822688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}