BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns linebacker Anthony Walker Jr. will miss the remainder of the 2022 season after struggling a torn quad tendon throughout Thursday’s win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the group introduced Friday.
The damage, which was confirmed by an MRI on Friday and requires surgical procedure, is taken into account to require a five- to seven-month restoration, a supply advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Walker was carted off the sphere after being injured within the third quarter of the 29-17 Browns win. He lay facedown for a number of minutes earlier than trainers put an air solid round his knee and helped him onto the cart.
“He is a large, large, large a part of our soccer group, what he brings to us on the sphere and off the sphere,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski stated Friday earlier than the MRI outcomes have been introduced.
Walker, 27, had six tackles in opposition to Pittsburgh earlier than his damage. He had a team-leading 113 tackles and one sack in 13 video games final season, his first with Cleveland.
Jacob Phillips is predicted to take over for Walker because the Browns’ beginning inside linebacker. Phillips had a team-high seven tackles and a sack in opposition to the Steelers.
“We have now a ton of confidence in him,” Stefanski stated of Phillips. “He performs like he performs [Thursday] night time, I feel he can actually have an effect on the sport.”
The Browns additionally misplaced their different beginning linebacker, Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, to a quad damage Thursday. Owusu-Koramoah spent a number of minutes within the medical tent earlier than heading into the locker room.
