{"id":770382,"date":"2026-02-23T04:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:23:20","slug":"cleveland-browns-young-pro-bowl-defender-may-have-career-ending-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770382\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns\u2019 Young Pro Bowl Defender May Have Career-Ending Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Myles Garrett and coordinated by Jim Schwartz, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> have developed a reputation for having an effective defense. While Cleveland hasn\u2019t been able to generate enough wins, their defense has helped keep the Browns in a lot of games.<\/p>\n<p>Only, now that Kevin Stefanski has been fired and Todd Monken has been hired, Schwartz won\u2019t be returning in 2026. Now, it turns out one of the Browns\u2019 young Pro Bowl defenders isn\u2019t expected to return either. In fact, he\u2019s not expected to ever play football again.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to <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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland.com\u2019s Browns insider Mary Kay Cabot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland.com\u2019s Browns insider Mary Kay Cabot<\/a>, Pro Bowl linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah is \u201cdoubtful at best to ever make it back to the playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koramoah\u2019s neck injury took place on Oct. 27, 2024, against the Ravens, where he was involved in a brutal collision with 6-foot-2, 252-pound running back Derrick Henry. He had been coming off a Pro Bowl year, but this injury ended his season after eight games. The 26-year-old Koramoah hasn\u2019t played a snap since.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns have already prepared for JOK\u2019s absence by selecting Carson Schwesinger with the 33rd overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. The 22-year-old linebacker just took home Defensive Rookie of the Year honors after a stellar season in which he recorded 156 tackles, 2.5 sacks, and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the end of the road for Koramoah, he\u2019ll finish having earned $18.06 million in his four-year NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/cleveland-browns-become-favorite-landing-172717341.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns Become \u2018Favorite Landing Spot\u2019 for Dual-Threat QB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns Become \u2018Favorite Landing Spot\u2019 for Dual-Threat QB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by Myles Garrett and coordinated by Jim Schwartz, the Cleveland Browns have developed a reputation for having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,571,85,54,2337,292,7,585,22881,8591,8934,1304,6,4912,582,23813],"class_list":{"0":"post-770382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-carson-schwesinger","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-derrick-henry","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jeremiah-owusu-koramoah","16":"tag-jim-schwartz","17":"tag-kevin-stefanski","18":"tag-mary-kay-cabot","19":"tag-myles-garrett","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-pro-bowl","22":"tag-the-browns","23":"tag-todd-monken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116118041921882145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770382","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=770382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}