The first five days of camp give plenty of reasons to make a coach nervous.
The injury data, cultivated from years and years of analysis of training camps across the league, is near the top.
Freddie Kitchens gave one of his longest answers of the day Friday when he was asked about certain players being on "pitch counts" during this portion of training camp. Clearly, it's something that was on the top of his mind.
"Most injuries occur in the first five days of training camp and if you want to extend it even more, it is the first eight to 10 days of training camp," Kitchens said. "So, we are trying to be conscious of that. There is only one way to get in football condition and that is actually playing football. I do not really care what they have done until they put pads on and they start running routes on a consistent basis and getting in huddle and running more routes. They never build endurance.
"The difference between endurance and being in shape is continuing to play over and over and over again to continue to play plays and not coming out. That is how you build endurance. And once you have endurance you can eliminate injuries. Yes, a bunch of our guys are on kind of pitch counts right now, just from the standpoint of we understand that that is the most immediate threat to injury, is these first five to eight days. Soft tissue injuries."
The pads come on Saturday when the Browns resume practice at 10 a.m.
Here's what you might have missed from Friday, the second practice of 2019 Browns training camp.
Check out photos from the second day of Browns Camp by team photographer Matt Starkey
The wide receivers during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Guard Eric Kush (72) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Center Lo Falemaka (77) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Linebacker Mack Wilson (51) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Greedy Williams (26) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide Receiver Ishmael Hyman (16) and Wide receiver Jaelen Strong (10) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Safety Damarious Randall (23) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Defensive end Olivier Vernon (54) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Tight end David Njoku (85) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Offensive guard Joel Bitonio (75) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Jarvis Landry (80) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Center Kyle Kalis (68) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Linebacker Sione Takitaki (44) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Linebacker Genard Avery (55) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson (98) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Running Back D'Ernest Johnson (30) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Tight end David Njoku (85) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi (65) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Defensive end Olivier Vernon (54) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Jarvis Landry (80) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Head Coach Freddie Kitchens during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
fans during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Jermaine Ponder (48) and Offensive tackle Ka'John Armstrong (69) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver D.J. Montgomery (83) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Greedy Williams (26) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Greedy Williams (26) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Donnie Lewis Jr. (37) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Cornerback Denzel Ward (21) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Offensive tackle Kendall Lamm (70) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Linebacker Joe Schobert (53) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Offensive tackle Ka'John Armstrong (69) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Jarvis Landry (80) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (13) and Cornerback Greedy Williams (26) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
The team during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
Defensive end Myles Garrett (95) during the second day of training camp on July 26, 2019.
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