Jarvis Landry is no longer in Cleveland, but the effect he had among players in the Browns’ locker room has still been felt this season.
Ask Nick Chubb, David Njoku or Denzel Ward.
All three players were among the seven still on the Browns’ roster when Landry joined the team in 2018. Chubb and Ward were in their first NFL seasons and Njoku was in his second, and each of them can vividly recall the energy Landry brought to a team that initially lacked it after their 0-16 season a year prior.
“Jarvis taught me a lot,” Chubb said Tuesday. “I came in here as a young rookie, and he was Jarvis Landry. Just on and off the field, everything, he’s always there for me. A great person, a great player, a great leader. He was a big part of me being who I am in football.”
Njoku credited Landry with instilling a true winning mentality in the building.
“I think he was one of the main reasons we got this thing turned around, along with obviously a few other players,” he said. “I have to give credit to him for the majority of it because he had the mentality and the mindset of winning and pushing through adversity. I feel like that rubbed on a bunch of players at the time when he was here.”
Those memories will come back this week when the Browns host the Saints, Landry’s current team, on Saturday at FirstStadium. Landry signed with the Saints last offseason after four storied years with the Browns that are the most successful seasons since the franchise returned to Cleveland in 1999. He ranks 15th in franchise history with 3,560 receiving yards.
The top memory many players — and fans — remember most from Landry was his famous speech during a wide receivers meeting on an episode of HBO’s Hard Knocks. The expletive-filled, but passionate speech about practicing through pain and not taking days off was considered a rallying cry for the team that season, which ended with a 7-8-1 record and represented a major step in a positive direction following the winless season.
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