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CLEVELAND (AP)Myles Garrett’s injured ankle is much stronger. His playing status remains shaky. Cleveland’s rookie defensive end – and the NFL’s top draft pick – practiced for the second straight day Friday Womens Anthony Munoz Jersey , but remained questionable to make his regular-season debut Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. Garrett has missed the Browns’ first three games with a severely sprained right ankle suffered in practice on Sept. 6. He’s made major progress and returned to the field Thursday. However, he still may be a week away from playing in a game. Coach Hue Jackson met with the team’s medical staff following practice, and while he didn’t ruled the 21-year-old out this week, the Browns will likely remain ultra-cautious with Garrett and let him rest another week. The team is eager to see Garrett rushing the quarterback, but they won’t jeopardize him being out for an extended period by rushing him back less than a month after he got hurt. Typically high ankle sprains take up to at least one month to heal. Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams said Garrett has been doing everything within his power to play. ”The things that people don’t realize are all of the other things behind the scenes he does,” Williams said. ”He is out there, but he has working so hard behind the scenes and hasn’t missed a meeting. He has the respect of everybody in the locker room, the training room, the strength department, the coaching and all of that stuff. We will see as he takes steps and see how his body handles it.” With his dazzling speed off the edge, Garrett played above his high expectations during training camp and in the preseason. Williams is looking forward to using him as a weapon, but only when the time is right. Until then, he’ll rely on his depth to fill Garrett’s void. ”Myles will always play hard. Myles will always do that http://www.thebengalslockerroom.com/authentic-ryan-glasgow-jersey ,” Williams said. ”Myles will get snaps when he is healthy, but the thing that I do like here is when everything goes into it and he is healthy. There is nobody in the National Football League 100 percent healthy when they play. Nobody. Coaches, whether it is me being mentally unhealthy or physically, so when he is ready to cut it loose and there are no setbacks, he will be fine and we will use him in a lot of different ways.” As they wait for Garrett, the Browns will be without starting linebacker Jamie Collins, who remains sidelined with a concussion. Defensive tackle Danny Shelton did not practice for the second straight day because of a calf injury. An MRI revealed Shelton’s injury is not serious, but like Garett, he may need more time to heal. Wide receiver Sammie Coates (hamstring) and tight end Randall Telfer (knee) were limited in practice and are questionable. — The Bengals’ third-year playmaker is excited about enjoying the spoils of a Rams-like offense."Entering year three, Joe Mixon has 415 professional carries to his name — each one going for a little over four yards on average.In 2019, the former second-round pick wants to make sure he’ll be ready to double his career total in one season. “I’m trying to be in the best shape to be able to handle that load because it’s not easy. I know I could do it,” Mixon told Geoff Hobson of bengals.com regarding carrying the ball an egregious 400 times. “You always have to expect it. Even if it doesn’t happen, you have to always expect it. And I always try to do whatever I can to maximize my ability. I feel like with what I can do Jake Fisher Jersey White , I should be able to do that easily.”Even if it doesn’t happen? More like when it doesn’t happen. Mixon’s 237 carries from 2018 ranked eighth in the NFL, 67 behind Ezekiel Elliott’s league-leading 304 mark. From 2000-2009 there were 87 instances of a running back carrying the ball at least 300 times. From 2010-2018, just 22. Larry Johnson’s 416 carries in 2006 remains the record for carries in a single season and the last time a running back reached the 400 mark — likely for as long as the passing game continues to grow on a yearly basis. But who’s to blame the still 22-year old multi-dimensional ballcarrier for wanting the ball more? As a matter of fact, Mixon seems more excited at the prospect of the offense fake giving him the pigskin.“Play-action,” Mixon said. “That’s what the Rams lived on. They give the ball a lot to Todd (Gurley), but they feed off their play-action. A lot of their big plays come off it. I feel like with our offense that will be great for us. You get everybody coming up (to play the run), we’d have no problem doing that.”New head coach Zac Taylor alluded to his offense in Cincinnati being based off the offense he came from in Los Angeles. <90% 11 personnel, about 33% play action, all of it based around outside/wide zone runs. The Rams’ offense wasn’t so hard to figure out from a bird’s eye view, but the constant usage of the same personnel, jet motions and yes, play action, made it tough to keep with on a snap-per-snap basis. It sounds pretty good in theory. But Mixon is all-in Jeff Driskel Jersey , especially when talking about his teammate John Ross, who at this moment in time is still a Bengal.“I strongly believe in that,” Mixon said, “because off the play-action, get those safeties coming up and with (Ross’) speed and play-making ability, he’s shown he can definitely get over the top. I feel like he’ll be able to stretch the field a lot for us. I think that will be a great thing for him and Andy (Dalton).”Setting up the passing game via the threat of the run in the form of play action is a concept football fans of all levels are aware of. The constant preaching from coaches, players and commentators doesn’t make it accurate though, but it’s a nice trope to make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Ben Baldwin’s piece on this relationship is a must-read on this subject.Running the ball early and using play action later on isn’t more effective than just using play action at a high rate. The Rams proved this early on last year when they ran play action over 90% of the time when passing with quarterback Jared Goff snapped the ball under center. Play action just... works. No matter how much effort you put into setting it up. And that still bodes well for the Bengals. Goff lead the league in play action drop-backs per game at with 13.31, while Andy Dalton finished at just 9.18. That’s about 64 more instances of safeties taking a few steps upfield. 64 more added times linebackers straying a few yards from their zones over the middle. 64 more times to find pay dirt down the field.Mixon probably won’t eclipse 300 carries in 2019, and he definitely won’t hit 400. The Bengals don’t need him carrying the ball a certain number of times per game, not if all the other pieces are in place. It never hurts to prepare though.