Dawgs By Nature: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:



Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
New Blog: Backing the Pack for NC State Fans!


Day 1 OTA Report: Non-Participants

Due to the restricted access on Day 1 of OTAs, there wasn't a lot of news floating around the Internet and local newspapers around Northeastern Ohio. However, here are a few bread crumbs that you can feed off until later tonight or tomorrow morning (media sources will have attended Wednesday's OTAs):

  1. LeCharles Bentley: On Day 1, former Pro Bowl center LeCharles Bentley was again absent, although this shouldn't be taken as any sort of setback. According to the Plain Dealer, Bentley's agent, Jonathan Feinsod, guaranteed that Bentley will play football in 2008. Granted, that could be a long ways away -- such as December 2008 -- but chances are Bentley will be on the field much sooner than that. If he's not, I'd expect Bentley's uneventful, yet rather long stay with the Browns, to be a short one (awkward way to phrase it, I know).
  2. Kellen Winslow: Winslow was the other person who didn't show up to Tuesday's OTA, according to the Plain Dealer. Of course this wasn't a surprise, as it has been reported for about a week or so that this would be rookie Martin Rucker's chance to shine.
  3. Where's Baxter: No sources have come out yet and directly stated whether or not Gary Baxter was on the field, so technically that should mean he was participating. We'll probably receive a confirmation after today's practice.

In slightly related news, the Akron Beacon Journal reported yesterday that when defensive back Kenny Wright was arrested last month, it wasn't the first time he had a post-season run-in with the law:

Brazoria County (Texas) district attorney Jeri Yenne said Tuesday that Wright already had a marijuana possession charge pending when he was picked up last month in Pearland, a Houston suburb.

I'll spare you the misery of seeing Wright's picture again, but this outlines another issue that will hopefully work itself out in the coming weeks: finding another Leigh Bodden. If you remember, Bodden was an undrafted free agent several years ago when he first joined the Browns who started catching everyone's eyes in training camp. If the Browns are fortunate enough to stumble upon a similar player this offseason, we can comfortably cut ties with K. Wright pronto.

EDIT (5:10 PM): The Browns have parted ways with Wright soon after he was not at Wednesday's OTAs due to "personal" reasons. Good riddance.

0 recs | Comment 3 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

“I’ll spare you the misery of seeing Wright’s picture again”

Dear Lord thank you.

by rufio on May 14, 2008 4:45 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

P.S.

We cut Wright.

Apparently, he actually managed to elude the cops for 1/4 mile, so better than we thought.

He also had 1.875 oz. of weed. I think that is a lot of weed.

by rufio on May 14, 2008 5:04 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Yeah, unfortunately I’m not too keen on ounces of weed, but it sounds like enough.

Thanks for the update…I’m updating the post right now…

Dawgs By Nature - Find out why Pittsburgh still sucks.

by ChrisPokorny on May 14, 2008 5:09 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Non-stop coverage of the team with the best fans in the NFL, the Cleveland Browns.

Community Guidelines
Send us a Scoop

Start posting about the Browns »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recent FanPosts

Buffalo-bills-logo_small
Who is the Browns best Kick Returner and MLB of all time?
Louis-nix_small
Practice Squad
Rufiohookgrin01_small
What do you want to see me do?
Louis-nix_small
Madden 10 Browns
Rookie_minicamp09-17--nfl_medium_540_360_small
AFC North 09-10 Standings Predictions
7782_small
Merriman in 2010?
Img
Mangini Being Too Hard on Rookies, Not A Chance!
Image_021_small
2002 Browns: How, Why?
Brownself_small
quinn question
Small
2009 Bengals

Post_icon New FanPost All FanPosts Carrot-mini

Browns Links


Executive Editor

Dbn_small ChrisPokorny

Minions

Rufiohookgrin01_small rufio

Official Partner of Yahoo! Sports