Browns LT Jedrick Wills Jr. undergoing knee surgery send heart breaking message to brown about…..
Jedrick Wills Jr. will miss the remainder of the Cleveland Browns’ season, the team announced. The Browns’ starting left tackle underwent season-ending arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Tuesday.
Willis, who had his fifth-year option picked up in May, becomes the latest offensive lineman to be lost for the season. Cleveland has played the entire season without Jack Conklin after the starting right tackle tore the ACL and MCL in his left knee in Week 1. Rookie Dawand Jones, Conklin’s replacement, tore his MCL at practice last week and is also out for the season.
The Browns were originally hoping that Wills, who was injured in the third quarter of Cleveland’s 27-0 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Nov. 5, would eventually return to the field. During that game, running back Kareem Hunt was tackled into the back of Wills’ leg. Then an air cast was placed on the knee, and Wills was carted off the field.
Head coach Kevin Stefanski originally said the injury wouldn’t end Wills’ season, and the team was hoping to have him back around Week 14, when the Browns played the Jacksonville Jaguars. But now, Wills, the 10th overall pick in 2020, is expected to be back for the beginning of the 2024 season. He has started 53 games for the Browns and was playing for a long-term deal at the end of this season.
Wills has been on injured reserve for more than a month because of sprained MCL and multiple reports say that he had arthroscopic surgery on his knee on Tuesday morning. Wills will not be able to return to action as a result of the operation.
It’s the second time in as many days that a Browns tackle has been shut down for the season. Rookie Dawand Jones hurt his knee in practice before Sunday’s win over the Jaguars and head coach Kevin Stefanski announced on Monday that he will not be back on the field before 2024.
Jones was starting at right tackle because Jack Conklin was lost for the season in September. James Hudson took over for him and Geron Christian has been starting at left tackle in an alignment that is now set to continue as long as both players can stay off the injury report.
