Within a span of four months, James Burgess Jr. was cut four times. By the time he arrived in Cleveland in late December, he’d seen four different locker rooms but never saw the field.
Month after month passed through the offseason, and Burgess remained a Brown. He got better, stronger and more comfortable with his role in Cleveland’s defense. So when the Browns cut down their roster to 53 at the start of the month, Burgess nervously waited for a call that never came.
He’d finally made it.
Burgess celebrated with a phone call of his own, and he let it all out in a conversation with his mother.