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Bengals QB Joe Burrow has no plans to sit out the rest of the season and said that he’s having fun playing.
“It was fun,” Burrow said, via PFT. “I’m having fun playing football. Not playing football is not fun. Sitting in the locker room rehabbing all day, that’s not why you do it. This is why you do it right here.”
Browns HC Kevin Stefanski and S Grant Delpit praised LB Carson Schwesinger, and both believe that he should be named the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Delpit notes that he knew early that Schwesinger would be around the ball often, and as the team’s defensive playcaller, he has been in on 96 percent of the team’s snaps.
“I’d be hard-pressed to believe there’s a defensive player as a rookie that’s playing better than him,” Stefanski said of Schwesinger, via Daniel Oyefusi of ESPN.
“I saw it early,” Delpit told reporters. “I ain’t going to lie. I saw it early at camp. I think everybody saw it, and we knew that he was going to be around the ball a lot.”
Schwesinger is also currently leading all rookies in tackles with 148, as well as tackles for loss with 11.5.
“Even if the initial goal wasn’t for me to be the green dot [defensive playcaller], that was my personal goal,” Schwesinger said. “I want to be on the field as much as I possibly can, for sure. If they let me play offense, I’ll go play offense, you know what I’m saying? And then when that’s the mindset, it’s never, for lack of better words, scary to be thrust into a certain role because as a competitor, I want to be put in those tough roles. A lot of it just comes down to work ethic. I think what my dad preached to me my whole life was if you’re willing to go out there and outwork people and put the work in so that you’re prepared for any opportunities, you’re going to be able to make the most of it. And that’s not just in football, that’s anywhere in life, really.”
One of the biggest fans of Schwesinger is his defensive coordinator, Jim Schwartz, who compared him to Hall of Famer Ray Lewis. Schwartz was an assistant with the Browns when they moved the franchise to Baltimore, and the team drafted Lewis in the first round.
“I was with Ray Lewis his first three years in the NFL. I don’t think — and Ray’s obviously a Hall of Famer, maybe the best ever to play in the linebacker position, but the command that Carson has now in a lot of respects took Ray’s third year in the league,” Schwartz said. *“And middle linebacker is hard; linebacker is a hard position to play for a young player. You have to have all of the run fits; you have to have the physicality to play there. You have to be a productive tackler. You have to...
