Wide receiver Josh Gordon hopes there’s nothing to reports of trade chatter involving his name that cropped up this week, but if the Browns did want to move Gordon to another team it probably wouldn’t hurt if prospective suitors saw him play well in a game.
That can’t happen in the regular season until Cleveland’s fifth game, but it looks like we’ll get a chance to see Gordon in a preseason game this week. Coach Hue Jackson said Wednesday, via Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal, that he expects Gordon to play this Friday.
It would be the first game of any kind for Gordon since Week 16 of the 2014 season and Jackson also expects it will be rookie Corey Coleman’s first time in the team’s lineup. A hamstring injury has kept Coleman from playing in the team’s first two games of the summer, but he’s been practicing for a while without complications and is on track to get into the lineup.
Jackson said that center Cameron Erving is expected to play as well despite spraining his ankle in Wednesday’s practice.
