
Right guard Wyatt Teller and safety Grant Delpit are fine, Stefanski said. It is not easy for a coach to call plays for an unreliable player. That is not the same as assuring Schwartz will be on the game-day active roster or part of the game plan. It is one thing for Stefanski to say Schwartz’ spot on the 53-man roster is safe. It is unfortunate that those things happen, but it is part of the game.” It’s only because they want to see you succeed, and they want you to see yourself succeed.’ At least cherish the part that they’re putting you back out there no matter what. “I told him on the sideline, ‘Look, you wouldn’t be in this position if they didn’t think you could do it. Schwartz, David Bell and Demetirc Felton are the leading candidates. The Browns are searching for a reliable third receiver after starters Amari Cooper and Donovan Peoples-Jones. The season spiraled downward from that moment.īrissett is trying to encourage Schwartz, as Watson did after the Jacksonville game. Mayfield injured his left shoulder making a tackle on the play. He is best known for stopping on the deep route over the middle on the pass from Baker Mayfield that was intercepted in a game with the Houston Texans. Schwartz caught 10 passes for 135 yards and one touchdown as a rookie in 14 games last season. “I think that’s a thing I need to work on and get back as far as that part, mentally.” “There’s no excuses for me dropping the ball, but I can see how I was probably a little too into my head, pretty much pressing and not letting the game come to me,” Schwartz said four days after the two drops in Jacksonville - the most recent time he met with the media. By his own admission, part of Schwartz’s struggles are in his head. Schwartz’s problem is not just his hands, or his eyes if he does have trouble tracking the ball, as Zierlein wrote. Stefanski, in his postgame press conference following the game with the Bears, said Schwartz’ job is not in jeopardy. “We support our players when they’re going through a tough stretch and it can be anything, and it’s easy to do with a guy like Anthony who is very, very accountable. “I think you really work with each player on a case-by-case basis,” Coach Kevin Stefanski said on a Zoom call Aug. A harsher grader might charge him with three or four drops. 27 in the 21-20 loss to the Bears and dropped at least two passes.

He was targeted three times in the game with the Eagles, caught two passes and dropped one.

Schwartz was targeted three times in the preseason game with Jacksonville on Aug. In other words, just because a pass is targeted for a particular player doesn’t always mean the ball was catchable. Not all targets are created equally when it comes to the numbers listed in the NFL gamebook of each game. Next to Jacoby Brissett winning the job as starting quarterback by default while Deshaun Watson serves an 11-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, Schwartz has become the biggest story of the preseason.
