00:00The Browns rookie running back, Quinshot Judkins, will not face any formal charges as prosecutors have declined to move forward with the case.
00:07This clears the way from the return to the team, and I'm told it should likely happen in the near future.
00:12Judkins, superstar running back from Ohio State, got a little bit of trouble in the offseason, has not signed his contract,
00:18but the expectations he's going to be back sooner than later in that Browns backfield, Joe.
00:22Yeah, it will. And, you know, listen, just because the state's prosecutor has looked at the evidence and looked at this and said,
00:33you know what, there's nothing here, we're not moving forward with charges,
00:36doesn't mean that the NFL doesn't have the right still to step in if their investigators feel that where there is smoke, there is fire here.
00:45So it'll be interesting to see. This is only one half of the equation, Donnie.
00:50We know the NFL can step in at any time and be like, yeah, you know what?
00:54Yeah, he's going to be suspended a couple of games.
00:58No, Joe brings up a great topic right there because the NFL, they sort of operate under the shield.
01:03You can be accused, if it makes the league look bad, you fall under that, you know, the NFL clause to sort of kick in at that point.
01:10There's no say where he's going to be going one, two, three, or four games.
01:13Maybe it's almost like a probationary period. You get that letter behind the scenes, don't do it again and you'll be suspended.
01:17But make no mistake about this, like some people are like, hey, fantastic, clear of all charges.
01:22The NFL still could come down with a one-game suspension, but this is one of the players where, as staying away from the team,
01:27big results are expected this year and a good rookie campaign looks like he'll be able to get back into camp and slide right into it.
01:34I wonder what his contract is going to look at that he already had some legal issues where, if this was a Cincinnati Bengals or the guy Shamar,
01:40I mean, it guy would never be signed at this point.
01:43No, and I got to tell you, they need him too because they have Jerome Ford as the running back right now in camp.
01:51Like he's it. He's in the final year of his rookie deal.
01:56He even took a pay cut just to make sure that he actually was guaranteed a roster spot.
02:01But Pierre Strong Jr. is the other guy, but he's a special teamer.
02:06So they need the reason they got Jenkins was to be the guy, right, to give them some options in the backfield.
02:13And if you're only going to have Jerome Ford in the backfield for a while, that's they're going to have to be signing some guys sooner rather than later.
02:22So they're going to have to be signing some guys later.
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