One of the Cleveland Browns’ biggest training camp and preseason battles could be over. According to a report from Steve Doerschuk of the Canton Repository, coach Freddie Kitchens has made a decision at placekicker.
Doerschuk tweeted out a report that fifth-round rookie Austin Seibert will not handle any of the kicking duties in the preseason finale this week against the Detroit Lions. Last year’s returning kicker, Greg Joseph, will do all the kicking Thursday night at FirstEnergy Stadium. But he continued with the information that Seibert “will be kicking against (the) Titans”.
The Tennessee Titans, of course, are the Browns’ Week 1 foe in the regular season.
Seibert made all four of his field goal attempts in the 13-12 loss in the last preseason game. That impressive performance might have been enough to convince Kitchens to make the call early, though nothing official has been said by anyone on the Browns.
Seibert struggled badly in the early portion of training camp, missing more FG attempts than he made in the first five sessions. Both he and Joseph have been erratic and prone to clusters of misses throughout their summer battle. Seibert does have a strong leg and was noticeably better on kickoffs during the days of training camp in Berea I attended.
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