The Bills are without their top two receivers for tonight’s preseason game in Cleveland, and the Browns will play without eight defensive backs.
If the game really meant anything, that would be a fair trade. As is, the Browns list 19 players out due to injury and eight of them are defensive backs. That’s an attention-grabbing number.
Sixth-round rookie Charles Gaines will start for Joe Haden (hamstring), and the first-team work can’t hurt Gaines in his quest to make the team. The Browns probably don’t want their other starting cornerback, 32-year old Tramon Williams, playing too much at this stage but they aren’t left with much choice.