The Browns have spoken to an NFL investigator trying into claims by the group’s former head coach, Hue Jackson, who mentioned Cleveland deliberately misplaced video games within the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
Jackson, now teaching at Grambling State, was fired by Browns homeowners Dee and Jimmy Haslam eight video games into the 2018 season with a 3-36-1 document. In February, Jackson indicated in a collection of posts on social media that the group paid him bonuses incentivizing him to lose and that he was set as much as fail. Jackson later softened these claims. The Browns went 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017. The poor run allowed the group to safe the No 1 general decide within the 2017 and 2018 drafts, which they used to pick out star faculty gamers Myles Garrett and Baker Mayfield.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the league engaged former Securities and Trade Fee chair Mary Jo White to look into Jackson’s allegations. “The evaluate is ongoing and is anticipated to conclude quickly,” McCarthy mentioned in an e-mail.
The group launched an announcement on Monday night time, saying it has labored with the league on its inquiry.
“Although Hue recanted his allegations a short while after they had been made, it was necessary to us and to the integrity of the sport to have an unbiased evaluate of the allegations,” group spokesman Peter Jean-Baptiste mentioned. “We welcomed an investigation and we're assured the outcomes will present, as we’ve beforehand acknowledged, that these allegations are categorically false. We have now cooperated with Mary Jo White and sit up for the findings.”
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