Callie Brownson, Chief of Staff of the Browns de Cleveland, will take the place of wide receiver coach Chad O’Shea for Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This will be the second time Brownson has been called by the head coach. Kevin Stefanski.
During this season, Brownson became the first woman in NFL history to serve as an assistant coach during a game by replacing tight ends coach Drew Petzing, who did not travel with the Browns to Jacksonville because his wife gave birth to the first child of the couple.
Stefanski he praised Brownson again Friday for his versatility. The coach added her to his coaching staff shortly after being hired by Cleveland in January of last year.
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The team reported this week that one of its coaches had tested positive for COVID-19but did not identify O’Shea.
It has been an active week for Cleveland wide receivers. Four of them, including Jarvis Landry, missed last week’s meeting in New York due to close contact with a person infected with COVID-19. All four were reinstated on Thursday and will now face their biggest game in years without their position coach. The Browns, who would advance to the postseason for the first time since 2002 with a win over the Steelers, they reopened their facilities on Friday.
The team will be without a number of key players, including lead cornerback Denzel Ward, by Sunday. The Browns They did not report any new cases of COVID-19 in Friday’s testing, and after receiving clearance from the league, they were able to train indoors. Cleveland canceled Thursday’s practice and kept their facilities closed in order to determine if there was a coronavirus outbreak on the team.
Cleveland He won’t have Ward, starting linebacker BJ Goodson, safety Andrew Sendejo and tight end Harrison Bryant when he faces Pittsburgh, who will rest his starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and other players with a view to the playoffs.
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