Cleveland Browns injuries come in threes at morning session

Eric Wright, Brian Schaefering and Marcus Benard all leave the field with injuries.

View full sizeTracy Boulian | The Plain DealerEric Wright suffered an injury in today's morning practice.

BEREA -- Observations, opinions and some facts on the Browns morning practice ...

 * Three defensive players left the practice with different degrees of injuries. The most serious appeared to be a hamstring or thigh injury to cornerback Eric Wright. It's not a leap to suspect the injury would push Joe Haden into the starting spot in the first preseason game in Green Bay on Saturday. Also, defensive lineman Brian Schaefering and linebacker Marcus Benard left the field under their own power and then were carted to the building (it's quite a walk from the field they were on). No updates from the club.

 * Right tackle Tony Pashos, who missed the first few days of camp during a bout of food poisoning, has missed the last two days with an apparent shoulder injury. He missed 11 games last season in San Francisco with a shoulder injury. No update from the club.

 * Haden apologized to coach Eric Mangini for Tweeting that a player was fined $1,760 for having his cellphone go off in a meeting. That followed Brandon McDonald's infamous Tweet about Terrell Owens. All of which has Mangini and his bosses pondering a club social media policy. Great line from Mangini: "I think our social media policy is a work in progress. We'll iron it out. Sometimes with ironing you have to apply a little steam."

 * Safety T.J. Ward intercepted a Jake Delhomme pass intended for Benjamin Watson. Watson also had two drops and was not happy with them.

 * Just a fantastic catch by Josh Cribbs in the right corner of the end zone on a perfect pass from Seneca Wallace. Cribbs caught it over his right shoulder with one hand as he was tumbling to the ground. Gerard Lawson's coverage was pretty good on the play.

 * The Monday practice was so bad -- Mangini called parts of it "horrendous" -- that the coach challenged his team to put two good ones together on Tuesday. It appeared that the morning session qualified as good. Mangini wants to see his players put bad plays, bad days, behind them, so the evening session will be a test.