Mary Kay Cabot has posted a story stating that the season ending injury to Browns wide receiver Syndric Steptoe was because of the practice conditions set forth by head coach Eric Mangini.  Steptoe's agent, Jerome Stanley, says that the practice was meant to be a walk-through only because of the rain.

Analysis: Another cause of an injury popping up due to the practice conditions of Mangini, but let's face it.  This is football and the Browns were used to much easier camps under former head coach Romeo Crennel.  Losing Steptoe is not a big loss, as he was likely on the bubble anyways.  At least this way he'll get paid this season on IR, rather than being cut late in August and struggling to find another job across the league.

As another football season approaches, we've decided to combine the two Cleveland Browns blogs on Ohio.com.

That blog can be found here. All of my old content has already been sent to its new home.

My favorite part about training camp is finding the little bits of information that doesn't get heavily reported upon. Here are a few things that stuck out today:

- The team is tackling during training camp, a rarity during Romeo Crennel's time as head coach.

- Left guard Eric Steinbach has added "15 to 20 pounds" of good mass. A silly offseason rumor was that head coach Eric Mangini didn't like Steinbach's light playing weight last season and that Steinbach could be cut because of it. That was highly improbable regardless, but it's nice to see Steinbach will be even stronger this season. It's likely he is left tackle Joe Thomas' backup as well as starting beside him.

- The first team offensive line during today's practice was Thomas, Steinbach, Alex Mack, Floyd Womack and Ryan Tucker.

- Brady Quinn unleashed a pass today that flew 55 yards in the air. Who said he had a weak arm?

- Every time running back James Davis has been mentioned since rookie minicamp, it's been solid praise. It will be interesting to see how he contributes in his first season. What really stood out is that Mangini talked highly of Davis' pass blocking.

- Defensive lineman Shaun Smith is reportedly down to 320 pounds. At times last season he was over 350. The weight drop should help his quickness, a trait greatly lacking among the Browns' defensive ends last season.

- Line from Tony Grossi's report today: (Kamerion) Wimbley seems to be everywhere on the field.

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