Prior to the now-infamous conclusion to this season’s first Browns-Steelers game, Damarious Randall was ejected for delivering a helmet-to-helmet hit. Although Randall was not suspended, he will join Myles Garrett in missing the Pittsburgh leg of this series.
The Browns will make Randall a healthy scratch, having departed for Pennsylvania without the starting safety, according to a team announcement. Freddie Kitchens‘ choice to leave Randall in Cleveland instead stems from an unknown incident that occurred this week, Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Randall was ejected after a hit on Diontae Johnson resulted in the Steelers rookie suffering a concussion. Randall played against the Dolphins last week, doing after saying he’d received death threats because of his hit on Johnson. The former Packers defender has started 22 games since being traded to the Browns in 2018. He’s made seven starts this season, missing four games due to injury.
Cleveland has already lost its other starting safety, Morgan Burnett, for the season. The team has consistently had to play backups in the secondary this season, due to injuries and now a surprise scratch.
Obviously both teams have been pressured by Goodell to sterilize this game. Expect the game officials to go overboard and call about 30 penalties to create the illusion that the league has some control over bad behavior.
Maybe, but I think this is more of Randall just being a troublesome individual/locker room problem, Packers got rid of him for that reason.
Exactly. Guy is a loose cannon/problem, big reason the Packers got rid of him for a bad backup level QB. Such a promising rookie season then all downhill. Browns seem to embrace that type.
Dirty team. Benching a player hopefully wont change the perception of them intentionally trying to injure player
Name one NFL team that can’t be called dirty. Go on, I’ll wait. Y’all really can’t tell the difference between undisciplined and head hunting. How are you gonna head hunt by smashing your face into another guy’s head? That’s in reference to the Diontae Johnson hit. First off, he’s not even good enough to bother targeting. Second, if you watch it, Randall isn’t even looking at Johnson, he’s looking at the ball. That’s why it isn’t the top of his head or his shoulder hitting Johnson, but his facemask.
All y’all react without watching or thinking of you take up the positions you get from an article or talk show.
Grow up, cysux. It’s football.
Squealer fans going squeal
Not a fan of either team but Pittsburgh is a much dirtier team than Cleveland.
Based on this one incident? Classic over reaction.
Sorry I misread your comment.