{"id":79535,"date":"2024-01-11T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=79535"},"modified":"2024-01-11T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T12:58:30","slug":"browns-wr-amari-cooper-sets-record-straight-on-health-ahead-of-wild-card-kieu-linh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/browns-wr-amari-cooper-sets-record-straight-on-health-ahead-of-wild-card-kieu-linh\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns WR Amari Cooper Sets Record Straight on Health Ahead of Wild Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amari Cooper\u00a0will be on the field on Saturday when the\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0take on the\u00a0Houston Texans\u00a0in a Wild Card matchup.<\/p>\n

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Cooper has missed the past two games with a\u00a0heel injury. He was a late scratch against the\u00a0New York Jets\u00a0and sat out last week along with a chunk of the other starters for a meaningless finale against the\u00a0Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n

Cooper assured that if the Week 18 matchup meant anything, he would have been on the field. The Browns were locked into the No. 5 seed. He\u00a0did not practice\u00a0on Tuesday or Wednesday but will be ready to go to face the Texans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting better every day,\u201d\u00a0Cooper said\u00a0on Wednesday, January 10. \u201cI\u2019m running around now. So it\u2019s just a typical injury that you have to work through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browns WR Amari Cooper Expects \u2018Heightened\u2019 Postseason Experience<\/h2>\n
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Despite missing a pair of games, Cooper put together a career year. He collected\u00a072 receptions\u00a0for a career-high 1,250 receiving yards, earning the fifth Pro Bowl nod of his career. He nearly doubled the production of the next receiver on the Browns roster,\u00a0Elijah Moore, who recorded 640 yards.<\/p>\n

This is Cooper\u2019s fourth trip to the postseason but first with the Browns. He went once with the then-Oakland Raiders in 2017 and made a pair of appearances with the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is just a little bit more heightened,\u201d Cooper said of postseason play. \u201cThroughout the course of the season, you make a mistake, you drop a ball, something happens, you got more plays. You know what I mean? But this is win or go home. So the margin for error is much smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Browns WR Amari Cooper Set Record in Last Matchup With Texans<\/h2>\n
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Cooper was unstoppable the last time the Browns saw the Texans on Christmas Eve. He caught 11 passes for 265 yards \u2014 a franchise single-game record.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecords are meant to be broken. At the end of the day, it\u2019s just numbers. I don\u2019t take it for granted, but it\u2019s the past,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans\u00a0credited Cooper for his success\u00a0and knows his team needs to shore things up if they want to slow down the Browns.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmari [Cooper] is a great player,\u201d\u00a0Ryans said. \u201cMade a ton of great catches, unbelievable catches in that game, and we were in position. We\u2019ve just got to be able to finish and make a play on the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper isn\u2019t exactly sure how the Texans will mix things up this time around in an attempt to slow him down. However, he\u2019s not too worried about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDepends. It\u2019s all situational,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cI mean, Houston, they\u2019re not really a man team, so I think the chances of them using a player to shadow me is a little bit less than what it would be if they were a man team. But you never know for the playoffs. Teams game plan and they\u2019re willing to do whatever they have to do to win. We\u2019ll just see. But from past experiences, obviously if you\u2019re dominating, they\u2019re going to make changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper and the Browns are a\u00a01.5-point road favorite\u00a0for the playoff matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amari Cooper\u00a0will be on the field on Saturday when the\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0take on the\u00a0Houston Texans\u00a0in a Wild Card matchup. Cooper has missed the past two games with a\u00a0heel… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}