{"id":768852,"date":"2026-02-22T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:12:19","slug":"browns-lb-unlikely-to-play-again-due-to-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768852\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns LB unlikely to play again due to serious injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A player once viewed as an integral part of the Cleveland Browns\u2019 future is said to be unlikely to ever play again.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah is \u201cdoubtful at best\u201d to play again due to a serious neck injury he suffered in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2026\/02\/how-its-doubtful-that-browns-lb-jeremiah-owusu-koramoah-will-ever-return-to-the-field-mary-kay-cabot.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com<\/a>. Owusu-Koramoah missed all of 2025 due to the injury, and does not appear likely to return.<\/p>\n<p>Owusu-Koramoah, 26, quickly established himself as a starter after the Browns selected him in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft. He emerged as a Pro Bowl selection in 2023, a season that saw him rack up 101 total tackles in 16 games. He had been <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/football\/browns-jeremiah-owusu-koramoah-contract-extension\/637596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rewarded with a three-year contract extension<\/a> prior to the 2024 season as well.<\/p>\n<p>The former Notre Dame linebacker suffered his likely career-ending injury on Oct. 27, 2024, in a violent collision with Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry. He had to be immobilized and placed on a back board as he was removed from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns may have feared things trending this way for a while, having invested a 2025 second-round pick in linebacker Carson Schwesinger. He appears to be the player the team will be building around for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A player once viewed as an integral part of the Cleveland Browns\u2019 future is said to be unlikely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,585,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-768852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jeremiah-owusu-koramoah","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116114223634388508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}