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BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III returned to practice Wednesday. Antonio Brown Jersey .The Browns designated Griffin to return from injured reserve on Wednesday morning. The team now has 21 days to decide whether he will return to the active roster. If he doesnt, he will remain on injured reserve for the rest of the season.Griffin was the second quarterback throwing in drills open to the media. Josh McCown took the first reps, with Griffin up second.He threw freely but not always accurately, as a couple of throws were wide. In all drills the media saw, quarterbacks either threw to staff members standing in one spot or to receivers running without defensive backs.Im the happiest guy in the building today, Griffin said. There will be a lot of happy guys tomorrow because its Thanksgiving, but today I think Im the happiest guy in the building.Griffin will not play in Sundays game against the New York Giants. Coach Hue Jackson all but ruled him out on Monday, saying right now it might be a little bit early for Griffin to play.This is the first stage of this, Jackson said Wednesday. We still have some hurdles to jump, so well get to them.Griffin has been out since the season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles, when he broke the coracoid bone in his left shoulder. In that 29-10 loss, Griffin completed 12 of 26 passes for 190 yards and rushed for 37 yards.Jackson said Griffin has one more test to pass before he can be cleared to fully take part in practice. Griffin said the test is simply to make sure the bone is fully healed. He said he will prepare as if hell be back on the field in December.I just want to be able to be healthy and help this team win games, Griffin said. Like I said, today was fun just to get back out there. The guys could feel the energy from me at least. Like a little kid out there with fresh legs. They were probably all telling me to slow down.Griffin said he can still be the Browns long-term answer at quarterback.I still feel I can be the guy for this organization, and I look forward to going out and proving it, he said.He also shrugged off any concerns about his durability.Im 26 years old man; Im not 45, he said. Ive got a lot of football left.Jackson said McCown will start this week. Rookie quarterback?Cody Kessler suffered his second concussion of the season in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.Five quarterbacks -- Kessler, McCown, Griffin, Charlie Whitehurst and Kevin Hogan -- have played for the winless Browns (0-11) this season. Wide receiver Terrelle Pryor, a converted quarterback, has thrown nine passes, completing five. Xavier Grimble Jersey .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. Kevin Greene Jersey . -- Nate Robinson has played for seven teams, so beating one of them is no longer a rare occurrence. http:///...rtavis-bryant-jersey ., for the next three years with the signings on Monday of Daryl Townsend and Michael Carter. WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Bob Sutton is still riveted by Americas Game, even if hes far from the service academy world that once consumed him when he coached at Army.And despite recent lopsided results in the fierce Army-Navy rivalry -- the Middies have won 14 straight -- Sutton says nothing is ever a given when these two teams play.I love the Army-Navy game, best game going, said Sutton, now defensive coordinator for the NFLs Kansas City Chiefs. I think (Army) has things turned around a bit. They were close last year. Navy, Ken (coach Niumatalolo) has done an unbelievable job there. Hes won some huge games this year.But Ill say this about Army-Navy, none of that matters one bit, he said. None of it has anything to do with that game.That game will be played Saturday in Baltimore, not far from the Navy campus. The Middies (9-3) are coming off a 34-10 loss to Temple in the American Athletic Conference title game, a setback that relegated star quarterback Will Worth to the bench for the rest of the year with a foot injury and sent them plummeting from the AP Top 25 . They will face an Army team that hasnt played in three weeks.One thing is certain, though. No matter the final score, coach Jeff Monkens third year at West Point will end like only one other football season at the academy in the past two decades. The Black Knights (6-5) will be playing in the postseason -- theyve accepted a berth in the Heart of Dallas Bowl against North Texas in late December -for just the second time since Suttons 1996 team won a school-record 10 games.Thats a big deal around here.Im very proud of this team, senior linebacker and co-captain Jeremy Timpf said. I know Army has been struggling the past few years, and its good to go out as a senior and know that youve produced a bowl game. Its nice to leave that with the program.Sutton spent eight years as an assistant at Army under Jim Young before taking over as head coach in 1991. His nine-year tenure is second in length at the academy only to the famed Earl Red Blaik, architect of two national champions in the mid-1940s, and Sutton knew how to beat Navy. His teamms went 6-3 against the Middies, five of the victories in succession. Justin Hunter Jersey. Sutton was fired after a 10-point loss to Navy in 1999 left Army at 3-8 for the second straight year, and the Black Knights have struggled mightily since. Rich Ellersons 2010 team, which finished 7-6 and beat SMU in the Armed Forces Bowl, has been the lone exception in this long stretch of futility.Meanwhile, service academy rivals Navy and Air Force have thrived.The Falcons won their 20th Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy a month ago at Michie Stadium, snatching the coveted hardware, emblematic of supremacy among the three schools, back from Navy (Army has won it only six times). Since 2007, Air Force has only failed to make the postseason once; Navy has missed playing in a bowl game just once since 2003.Army, the lone independent among the three schools, hopes to join that perennial party. It wont be easy.One year at a time, mate.At the academy, youre only going to go so high, Sutton said. It doesnt mean you cant be successful, but youre framed by all these different aspects. Football is very important, but its not the most important thing. Thats never going to change.On Saturday, it will be very important -- to both teams -- and Army comes in with more emotion than usual. Its gold helmets carry a sticker with the No. 28 framed by the words Brother, Teammate, Friend in honor of sophomore defensive back Brandon Jackson, a rising star who was killed in a one-car crash the morning after Army had beaten Rice in early September.I never thought I would lose one of my brothers while we were still at school together -- while we were still teammates, senior linebacker Andrew Knight wrote in a personal letter posted Wednesday in the Players Tribune . West Point prepares you for many things, but not for something like that.---AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta in Kansas City, Missouri, contributed to this report.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 ;Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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