The Browns’ OTAs and minicamp featured a logjam of players from a variety of positions showing what they can do on punt and kick returns.
That’s exactly the way special teams coordinator Amos Jones wanted it. The competition will continue at training camp, but the early returns were promising.
“You can have three guys back on the kickoff now so you better have six or seven guys that can catch a kickoff to get you through a game,” said Jones, referencing an offseason adjustment to the league’s kickoff rules. “We have taken everybody that has had a résumé – be it college with the rookies or veterans in this league that we have signed – anybody that can catch a kick, we have caught it.