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Cleveland to Buffalo’s training camp, receiver Corey Coleman was advised to
leave behind the baggage of his two seasons with the Browns.The injuries, dropped passes, and constant reminders of how Coleman failed to play to the Browns’ first-round draft-pick expectations can all be set
aside.The Bills are offering him a clean slate.“We all go through things in life that don’t go our way,” Bills general manager Brandon Beane said Monday, a day after acquiring Coleman in a trade. “I
don’t know all what went right or wrong for Corey in Cleveland. But we view it
as a fresh start here to earn and compete.”For the relatively small price of a 2020 seventh-round draft pick, Beane took what he called a “low-risk” gamble in a bid to add breakaway speed and
play-making potential to one of his team’s most unsettled positions.In Cleveland, first-year GM John Dorsey parted ways with a player who came to symbolize the overall dysfunction of the Browns’ previous regime.By trading down in the draft order to select Coleman with the 15th pick in the 2016 draft, the Browns passed on an opportunity to choose eventual
Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback Carson Wentz.Hand injuries limited Coleman to playing just 19 games, during which he caught 56 of the 131 passes thrown in his direction for 718 yards and five
touchdowns. That was a significant drop in production for a player who scored an
NCAA-leading 20 touchdowns receiving and led the Big 12 with 1,363 yards
receiving at Baylor in 2015.Coleman’s tenure in Cleveland will be best remembered for his drop late in the fourth quarter in last season’s finale at Pittsburgh that sealed the Browns’
0-16 finish.None of that now matters in Buffalo
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starter Kelvin Benjamin.Including Benjamin, acquired in a mid-season trade from Carolina, Buffalo’s four returning receivers combined for 57 catches for 681 yards and six
touchdowns last season. Jeremy Kerley, an eighth-year player, was the team’s
most notable offseason free-agent addition, while the Bills also used two
late-round draft picks to select Ray-Ray McCloud III and Austin Proehl.Beane revisited previous discussions he had with the Browns regarding Coleman, and elected to make the trade two weeks into training camp.“I just thought now was the opportunity to get him in here to start learning this offense versus waiting any longer,” he said.Nothing, however, is guaranteed.“He’s not going to automatically get anything,” Beane said. “He’s got to come here and compete. That’s what I told him on the phone last night.”Pending a physical
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Tuesday. It’s too early to determine whether he’ll play in Buffalo’s
preseason-opener against Carolina on Thursday.Kerley welcomed the added competition Coleman brings to the Bills.“Here, it’s a better opportunity for him to compete. It’s a better opportunity for everyone. Competition is good,” Kerley said. “It’s going to
definitely help us boost up a little bit.”As for Coleman’s past, Kerley said the best advice is to forget it.“Whatever happened in Cleveland, that’s over with,” Kerley said. “You’re in a different place, a different atmosphere, different coaches, different situation.
You kind of get to redeem yourself.”The trade caught Coleman’s now-former teammate, receiver Jarvis Landry, by surprise.The three-time Pro Bowler
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who came to Cleveland in a March trade from Miami, mentored Coleman during their
few months together. Landry convinced the 24-year-old to change his diet and
schooled him on what it takes to succeed.“Just continue to work hard, continue to grind at it,” said Landry, who spoke to Coleman after the trade became official. “I think he’s got a great grasp of
that. And who knows, maybe in Buffalo that continues to carry over, and he has a
hell of a career.”Coleman also had issues off the field.He was named in a police report regarding an alleged felonious assault last year, but never charged. He was also sent home from the Browns’ trip to Houston
for missing curfew while he was injured.The Bills were assured Coleman doesn’t face possible NFL disciplinary action resulting from the alleged assault.A jury in St. Louis on Tuesday ordered the NFL’s Rams to pay former running back Reggie Bush $12.5 million for a severe
knee injury he suffered in 2015, the team’s final season in St. Louis before
moving to Los Angeles.
The jury found the Rams 100 percent liable for Bush’s injury and ordered the team to pay $4.95 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive
damages, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.Attorneys for the Rams said they plan to file a motion for a new trial.Bush was playing for the San Francisco 49ers when he was pushed out of bounds during a game on Nov. 1,
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Dome at America’s Center. He slipped on a surface that the lawsuit dubbed the
”concrete ring of death,” about 35 feet (11 meters) behind the 49ers’ bench.Bush suffered a season-ending left knee injury. The lawsuit contended the injury undermined his earnings as a player for the rest of his career. He signed
with Buffalo in 2016 and retired in 2017. Now 33, he works as an analyst for the
NFL Network.”Reggie lost his ability to do what he loved, and to bargain for a contract that he worked his entire life for,” Bush’s lawyer Tim Cronin said during
closing statements. ”These players get chewed up. They only have so many
chances.”Bush also sued public agencies that own and operate the dome, but a judge dismissed them from the suit last week after ruling that the team had control of
game-day operations.Just a week before Bush’s injury, Cleveland Browns quarterback Josh McCown slid across the same concrete stretch and injured his shoulder.The concrete surface in the dome was covered with rubber padding two weeks after Bush was injured.Rams attorney Dan Allmayer said the team should not be held responsible for Bush’s injury because it could not have foreseen a dangerous condition. He noted
that no one besides McCown and Bush had been injured there over 20 seasons
played at the dome.Allmayer said Bush’s injury was caused by ”pre-existing issues,” not the fall on the concrete.NFL owners approved the request from Rams owner Stan Kroenke to move the team to Los Angeles in
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