On the very first drive of the first preseason game of the season, center Nick Harris suffered a devastating and season-ending injury. This was after the Cleveland Browns already cut veteran J.C. Tretter to allow for Harris to take over the job. In the offseason before, however, general manager Andrew Berry also signed veteran Ethan Pocic to a one-year deal worth just over the minimum to give the Browns a solid fallback.
There are two things they could not have envisioned when they made that deal: Pocic would be starting Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers, and he would be playing at the level that he is.
