Some call him Big Baby. Others call him a man among boys. Whatever the case may be, the Browns now have a crater-sized hole in the middle of their defensive line where three-time Pro Bowl nose tackle Shaun Rogers once stood.
Rogers, who suffered a lower left leg and ankle injury late in Sunday’s 16-7 loss to the Bengals, will be placed on injured reserve for the season and undergo surgery to repair the damage. He’ll be replaced in the lineup by second-year nose tackle Ahtyba Rubin, the Browns’ sixth-round pick in 2008 out of Iowa State. End Corey Williams is also lobbying for playing time there, and coach Eric Mangini will determine if he needs to add another lineman.
“[Rogers] is very disappointed,” Mangini said. “He wants to be out there. It hurts. It’s really unfortunate.”
Mangini declined to say if Rogers’ ankle was broken. “I really don’t want to get into the specifics of it,” he said.
Rogers is one of four defensive starters injured Sunday. The others were safety Brodney Pool (concussion), end Kenyon Coleman (knee) and linebacker Kamerion Wimbley (knee). Mangini said it’s “wait-and-see” with the three other players, but acknowledged the Browns are taking Pool’s concussion — his fourth or fifth — very seriously.
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