After Browns running back Duke Johnson asked to be traded

Myles Garrett Color Rush Jersey , Browns General Manager John Dorsey channeled Tommy Lee Jones and essentially said, I don’t care. Browns coach Freddie Kitchens feels the same way.“At this point in time, him asking for a trade doesn’t matter to me,” Kitchens said, via ESPN. “He’s a Cleveland Brown. Duke’s the type of the guy who’s going to show up and he’s going to do his job and he’s going do his job well. That’s all I can ask for as a coach. His demands, I’m not impacted by that one bit.”Kitchens insisted that Johnson will be on the roster in 2019.“Duke’s under contract,” Kitchens said. “I’ve said this for a month now https://www.brownsfanshop.com/Rashard-Higgins-Jersey , I don’t know where all this trade talk started happening. People just assumed we would trade him because we signed another good football player [Kareem Hunt]. I like good football players, and I like as many as I can get. It’s our job to get him the ball and enable him in whatever role that is. Duke Johnson is on this football team and will have a vital role on this team and will help us win football games. Am I surprised he’s still here? No, not one bit. I have never said anything different than that.”Johnson played all 16 games last year but had a diminished role in the offense, finishing the season with career-lows in carries, rushing yards, catches and receiving yards. Heading into his fifth season, Johnson seems like a player the Browns could easily decide to move on from Joe Thomas Jersey , but Kitchens and Dorsey have both indicated that won’t happen any time soon. When Armonty Bryant was released by the Raiders last May, the team attached a non-football illness designation to the designation and Bryant has been fighting that illness ever since.Raiders doctors told Bryant to get his kidneys checked out after an April physical and Bryant was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis a short time later. The condition has resulted in end stage renal failure and Bryant is currently on dialysis while he waits for a transplant.“They say the kidney is a silent killer,” Bryant said, via Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com. “It’s true because I can tell you right now, I had nothing wrong with me. I had a little back issues, but that’s about it. I never thought that this could end my career, basically.”Bryant played 36 games for the Browns and Lions from 2013 to 2016. He served three suspensions for violating the league’s substance abuse policy before being released by the Lions in 2017.Bryant’s wife Kim Chris Hubbard Color Rush Jersey , who is due to give birth to a child, said the situation is “completely depressing” her husband as he can’t transition to a post-football life while waiting to find a donor. Bryant thought he had found one that matched his type-O blood, but further tests showed it wasn’t as good a match as hoped.One hope is that Bryant is a donor match program where Bryant would “get a match from someone else and his donor gives a kidney to someone with whom he or she is a match.”“I need a kidney,” Bryant said. “And I want people to know you don’t have to be a match for me to donate a kidney. Why not save someone else’s life and mine at the same time?”We hope Bryant finds the help he needs and has many years to share with his growing family.