AFC Notes: Dre’Mont Jones, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Browns, Ravens, Steelers

Browns

  • Browns LG Joel Bitonio was asked if he’s thinking about the future of his career past this season: “I try and take it game by game, week by weekโ€ฆthink about that stuff in the offseason. Trying to beat the Jets this week.” (Zac Jackson)

Ravens

Baltimore added DL Dre’Mont Jones from the Titans to bolster a pass rush that is near the bottom of the league with just 11 sacks. Ravens HC John Harbaugh thinks he’s a perfect scheme fit and anticipates him making his debut in Week 10. 

“I think he can help a lot, weโ€™re really happy with it,” Harbaugh said, via the teamโ€™s website. “Heโ€™s a good fit for us. The system heโ€™s been in the last three years is the same system. He picks it up quickly. Heโ€™s a really good fit style of play wise. We absolutely will get him weaved into it right away and heโ€™ll be playing on Sunday.”

Steelers

Steelers WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling said he jumped at the opportunity to continue his career with QB Aaron Rodgers, who he has a great relationship with.

He’s the best that ever played this game, man,” Valdes-Scantling said, via ESPN. “So it’s pretty easy when you got that guy under center and just being on the same page. We built a great rapport over the four years that we got to play together, and he’s one of my closest friends in this NFL thing that I’ve ever made. He’s taught me a lot, so just being able to be around him again and get some more knowledge four years later, I’m excited about it.

Valdes-Scantling said it was a “joint effort” between him and Rodgers to bring him to Pittsburgh.

He called, and we talked about it a couple times, and he said he would love to have me here, made his pitch, and it was down to the wire, to be honest,” Valdes-Scantling said. “I was already on the West Coast, so it was kind of easier to stay over there moving around and stuff. But going back home for a week and get reset and I said, ‘Hey man, I want to keep playing this thing.’ And gave Aaron a call and he was like, ‘let’s do it.‘”

 

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