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Browns Release Ifo Ekpre-Olomu


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More than a year after a torn ACL suffered in practice derailed his hopes of being a first-round draft pick, cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu continues to try to re-establish his football career.

The Browns have announced that Ekpre-Olomu has been released. He’ll now be subject to the waivers system. If he clears waivers, he’ll become a free agent.

Cut with the “non-football injury” designation, Ekpre-Olomu’s knee apparently has still not fully recovered from the December 2014 injury.

It’ll be interesting to see whether the 49ers make a claim for Ekpre-Olomu, given that coach Chip Kelly recruited Ekpre-Olomu to Oregon.

Ekpre-Olomu reportedly received $3 million from an insurance company as a result of the injury. Still, if he ends up having no NFL career, he will have lost a lot more than that.

But, no, there continue to be no valid reason for providing college football players fair compensation for the millions their efforts generate.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/04/02/browns-release-ifo-ekpre-olomu/

Make that call Godfather Gettle for cheap. He probably does end up going to San Fran

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His knee must be shredded for them to be giving up on him now. No harm in putting a claim in on him though. We can just fail him on his physical if it's that bad. If the long term prognosis is positive, but he isn't ready yet then he can be put on the non-football injury list* for 2016 so he doesn't take up a roster spot.

NFI list includes any injuries that occurred in college so even though it was a football injury, he qualifies for it.

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2 hours ago, thomas96 said:

When was he drafted?

7th round in 2015. He was a fringe 1st round pick before wrecking his knee right before his last bowl game. In truth he was probably looking at 2nd or 3rd round due to his size.

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1 hour ago, Dilla said:

He claims that the knee is fine now, but I doubt that is the 100% truth. Wouldn't hurt to bring him in and see for ourselves.

Yeah there is no way he is actually 100%. The Browns may do a lot of dumb things, but not even they are dumb enough to release him right now if he was healthy. They'd at least wait for training camp if they believed he was healthy.

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