Daily Dawg Chow: Browns news (9/29/20)

Cleveland Browns:

• “Browns Lose WR/Returner JoJo Natson For The Season With Torn ACL” (OBR) - “Coach Kevin Stefanski announced that JoJo Natson will miss the rest of the season as he will be placed on season-ending injured reserve.”
• “Stefanski praises top playmakers for plays that don’t show up on stat sheet” (Browns.com) - “Those plays, alone, just don’t completely cover the impact they’ve made in Cleveland’s back-to-back wins at FirstEnergy Stadium.”
• “Browns waive LB Montrel Meander” (BrownsWire) - “The Cleveland Browns have waived reserve linebacker Montrel Meander. The Browns have yet to make an official announcement, but Meander no longer appears on the team’s website of active players.”
• “The Browns could make the playoffs by beating only mediocre quarterbacks” (cleveland.com) - “What do Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Kyler Murray, Jared Goff, Josh Allen and Cam Newton have in common?”
• “A complete game, more improvement, a winning record … Browns finally look like a functional franchise” (BrownsZone) - “If you had ‘six years’ in the ‘How long will the Browns go without having a winning record?’ pool — you win.”

NFL:

• “Former All-Pro S Earl Thomas visiting Texans” (NFL.com) - “There is currently no deal in place with Thomas, who is one of multiple safeties set to work out later in the week with the Texans, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.”
• “Matt Nagy says Nick Foles will be Bears starting quarterback” (CBS) - “Nick Foles’ three-touchdown performance in relief of Mitchell Trubisky on Sunday has earned him the starting job for the Bears’ upcoming game against the Colts in Week 4.”
• “Mike McCarthy claims Trysten Hill did not intend to twist Chris Carson’s knee” (PFT) - “McCarthy claims that Hill didn’t try to hurt Carson at all, and instead was just finishing the tackle.”