Daily Dawg Chow: Browns news (9/8/20)

Cleveland Browns:

• “Browns Starting C Tretter Returns To Practice After Surgery” (AP) - “Cleveland Browns starting center JC Tretter returned to practice Monday after being sidelined all of training camp following right knee surgery.”
• “Ronnie Harrison Relieved to be in Cleveland” (BrownsDigest) - “When Joe Schobert signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars he probably didn’t think he would be joining another rebuild, it is seemingly heading that way with the approach the Jaguars look to be taking.”
• “Rashard Higgins: Baker Mayfield “more focused” this year” (92.3 The Fan) - “Through all the challenges the year has presented the Browns, receiver Rashard Higgins has seen a different Baker Mayfield in 2020.”
• “Cleveland Browns release first depth chart of 2020 season” (WKYC) - “With their season opener against the Baltimore Ravens just six days away, the Cleveland Browns have released their first unofficial depth chart of the 2020 campaign.”

NFL:

• “Raiders QB Marcus Mariota on injured reserve with undisclosed injury” (ESPN) - “The Las Vegas Raiders placed backup quarterback Marcus Mariota on injured reserve Monday with an undisclosed injury.”
• “Mike Mayock explains why the Raiders traded their third-round pick before he played a single game” (CBS) - “Mayock’s remarks at least partially run counter to the notion that Bowden, 22, was also a concern outside of the running backfield.”
• “Ravens, not Saints, would have gotten Jadeveon Clowney in sign and trade” (PFT) - “Per multiple sources, if the league had given the green light to the sign-and-trade concept, Clowney would have ended up not with the Saints but with the Baltimore Ravens.”
• “Cardinals, WR DeAndre Hopkins closing in on contract extension” (NFL.com) - “Hopkins is close to hauling in a new agreement on a contract extension, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.”