Usually when you sign a player, you don't expect that player to show up at his physical with a torn ACL. That's what happened to the Cleveland Browns and now, they'll have to play the next two weeks with only 52 players on their 53-man roster.
How did the Browns end up signing a player with a torn ACL? It all started on Oct. 12 when the team placed quarterback Brian Hoyer on injured reserve. Hoyer was lost for the season when he tore his ACL in Cleveland's Week 5 victory against Buffalo.
With Hoyer on injured reserve, the Browns signed wide receiver Charles Johnson from the Packers practice squad to fill Hoyer's spot on the active-roster. That happened on Saturday. On Wednesday, during Johnson's introductory physical, the Browns discovered that he had a torn ACL, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
