CLEVELAND (AP) -- Charlie Whitehurst grimaced in pain and was nearly doubled over as he leaned on a stanchion outside Cleveland's locker room while waiting to undergo X-rays.
There was a line of patients.
The Browns are losing quarterbacks as quickly as games.
Whitehurst and rookie starter Cody Kessler were both injured on Sunday during a 33-13 loss to the New England Patriots, further damaging Cleveland's already ravaged quarterback situation.
Kessler, making his third start after Robert Griffin III (broken bone in his shoulder) and Josh McCown (broken collarbone) got hurt in the season's first two weeks, injured his ribs and chest when he was hit hard in the first quarter on a backward pass that skipped out of the end zone and turned into a safety for New England.