BEREA, Ohio — The Browns will try to get rookie running back Quinshon Judkins on the field Sunday in Baltimore for his NFL debut.

Judkins practiced with the the team for the first time on Thursday since mandatory minicamp in June. Since then, he’s been working through his legal issue stemming from his a domestic battery arrest on July 12 involving his girlfriend. 

The Browns No. 36 pick out of Ohio State, Judkins won’t be charged with a criminal offense, but the NFL is still deciding whether or not to suspend him. He traveled to Manhattan on Wednesday to be interviewed by league officials under the Personal Conduct Policy, but no decision was made, and no set timeframe exists for one. 

Judkins returned to the Browns facility on Wednesday night and was in the locker room during the open period on Thursday. He’s not scheduled to talk to the media until Friday, but has a chance to face the Ravens on Sunday depending on how things go in practice the next two days, and the walk-through on Saturday. 

The good thing for Judkins is that he looked good in minicamp, and kept himself in excellent shape during the break. 

“I think we’re around these guys a good chunk, so you have opportunities to find ways to get install,” offensive coordinator Tommy Rees said Thursday. “Obviously for Q, we’ll take it day by day to see how he continues to progress in practice. It takes some extra work to make sure that we can catch him up after a Wednesday practice, but Thursdays and Fridays are really pivotal days throughout the week, so finding ways to make sure that we get him the proper work to give him an opportunity moving forward.”

Rees said Judkins being around for organized team activities and the minicamp gave him a good foundation. 

“When you get into the stream of a season, the one positive is you’re not trying to digest seven or eight installs like you would in training camp. You have a finite number of plays within a game plan. There will be carryover in terms of the terminology that, so for him it’s really focused on, all right, we have a new playbook for this week’s opponent. Let’s try to master that. Instead of saying, all right, well here’s our seven installs at training camp. That’s a little bit more daunting than one game plan

As far as a package of play for Sunday, Rees sounded optimistic.

“We’ve got to see how he progresses, right?” he said. “I mean there’s the physical part of it, there’s the player’s health part of it, there’s the mental part of it. I mean there’s so many different aspects when you’re looking to prepare a guy. We have a lot of trust in all the different facets of our organization that will help get him there and we will just monitor as it goes this week and hopefully it reaps good benefit, but we’ll take it one day at a time and see where it goes.”

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