Browns send "ill" Beckham home, QB Mayfield feeling better
CLEVELAND (AP) - パン職人 Mayfield's 負傷させるd ribs aren't the only 関心 this week for the Browns.
星／主役にする wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was sent home feeling ill on Thursday as coach Kevin Stefanski said the team 行為／法令／行動するd out of 警告を与える because of COVID-19 関心s while 準備するing for this week's matchup against the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers.
Stefanski said Beckham did not 実験（する） 肯定的な for the coronavirus. He took another 実験（する） before leaving the team's 施設 and the Browns will find out those results Friday.
"You have to be careful," Stefanski said. "I don't want to assume anything, but with all of our guys we will make sure we just follow the 議定書s and just be 安全な. We have been on high 警報, that is just 2020."
Beckham has been a major factor in Cleveland 存在 4-1 for the first time since 1994. He has 21 catches for 294 yards in three games, and the polarizing three-time プロの／賛成の Bowler has 明言する／公表するd 非常に／多数の times that he's as healthy and 確信して as he's been in years.
The Browns (4-1) are already 行方不明の 星／主役にする running 支援する Nick Chubb because of a sprained 権利 膝, and Stefanski wasn't ready to consider his 罪／違反 without Beckham.
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) 急ぐs during the second half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Cleveland. The Browns won 32-23. (AP Photo/David Richard)
"I don´t know if I want to go there yet," Stefanski said. "He´s a big part of what we do."
In 新規加入 to the 傷害s to Mayfield, Chubb and Beckham's illness, wide receiver Jarvis Landry has been 限られた／立憲的な this week with hip and rib problems. Landry はうd off the field after taking a wicked 攻撃する，衝突する to the 味方する 早期に in last week's 勝利，勝つ.
The Browns have 生き残るd a 無分別な of 傷害s with several backups stepping up and making 重要な 出資／貢献s during the team's four-game winning streak. Along with Mayfield and Beckham, safeties Ronnie Harrison (concussion) and Karl Joseph (hamstring) are both uncertain for Sunday.
Chubb is 推定する／予想するd to 行方不明になる a few more games and starting 権利 guard Wyatt Teller is "week to week" with a 緊張するd calf. Starting cornerback Greedy Williams went on 負傷させるd reserve this week and the Browns lost 事業／計画（する）d 新人 starting safety 認める Delpit to a season-ending 傷害 in （軍の）野営地，陣営.
"It's 肉親，親類d of the 主題 of the year for us," said 不快な／攻撃 調整者／コーディネーター Alex 先頭 Pelt.
As for Mayfield, Stefanski said his quarterback has 改善するd and was able to throw some passes on Wednesday. 先頭 Pelt said Mayfield's throws （機の）カム under the 監督 of the team's trainers after the team's workout.
Mayfield took a hard 攻撃する，衝突する in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 while throwing an interception in last week's 勝利，勝つ over Indianapolis but finished the game.
Mayfield said "everything" on his 権利 味方する was sore Wednesday when asked if the 傷害 was 明確な／細部 to his ribs.
Mayfield didn't throw a sing le pass and watched backup 事例／患者 Keenum work with Cleveland's receivers during the 10-minute window of practice opened to the マスコミ. The team had to move its workout inside because of rain on Thursday, so there was no visual 証拠 Mayfield did anything more.
Stefanski said there will be several factors in deciding if Mayfield can 直面する the Steelers (4-0).
"With any 傷害 there is always 柔軟性 and movement and then there is a 苦痛 element to all of this," he said. But he is 進歩ing."
On Wednesday, Steelers 防御の 取り組む （機の）カム Heyward made it （疑いを）晴らす that he's got Mayfield in his sights.
"I'm not a doctor," Heyward said. "I´m not going to sit here and tell you that I know how bruised up he is. But at the end of the day I´m just trying to （打撃，刑罰などを）与える good 罰."
If Keenum has to play, Stefanski has 信用／信任 in the 32-year-old, who has made 62 NFL starts.
"All of our guys, you look 支援する to that last game, guys step up and have to 成し遂げる," he said. "事例／患者 has been a backup in this league for a very long time and he has been a starter. He understands how to 準備する if need be."
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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) cannot 持つ／拘留する の上に the ball in the end zone as Indianapolis Colts cornerback Xavier Rhodes (27) defends during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Browns quarterback パン職人 Mayfield (6) throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)
