When Jake Browning was on the NFL fringe, a quarterback on the practice squad running the scout team, he got the invite from the chairmen.
Chidobe Awuzie and Vonn Bell, running that player-only meeting for the secondary on Tuesday, made the offer for him to attend. Football junkie and gym rat that he is, Browning couldn’t turn it down.
“Mike Thomas was in there, too,” says Browning of the safety who arrived in the middle of the 2021 Super Bowl run. “I learned a lot from those guys.”
Since he dissected the Jaguars on 86% percent passing and 354 yards on Monday night, Browning has gone under the microscope, not to mention winning AFC Offensive Player of the Week.
“The first thing I thought was it’s a good thing Deebo (Samuel) is in the NFC,” Browning said.
What people are finding out now is that Browning has become a popular sort in his locker room while meticulously preparing for this final stretch of smashups in this AFC demolition derby.
“We’ve always had guys around the league willing to help, but sitting in a meeting on their day off?” Thomas is saying at his locker at 7 p.m. in this screwy short week. “You can see him right now. Always studying. Making sure he’s got the checks now that he’s playing.
“Jake has always been willing to help and I think that’s why everybody is really rooting for him fully getting his opportunity.”
Awuzie, the gifted Colorado cornerback, didn’t know Browning. But he knew enough about him. They’re both from up near Sacramento way. They’re represented by the same agency. They played against other in college when Awuzie’s Buffalos ruled the Huskies.
“Ask him about that,” Awuzie says.
“We realized how passionate he is about football. How much he knows. We thought it would be a winning advantage having an offensive mind like his in our meeting room. He was as much a part of that Tuesday meeting as anybody. He’d shut out suggestions. Give us pointers on certain…
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