Browns running back Trent Richardson said he's 100 percent healthy and wants to play Thursday night in the second preseason game against the Lions, reports the Akron Beacon-Journal.
But Richardson isn't going to rush back for a preseason game because of his shin injury when his goal is to be 100 percent for Week 1. Browns coach Rob Chudzinski said he hasn’t decided yet whether Richardson will face the Lions after sitting out the exhibition opener last week against the Rams.
"The ultimate goal is to make it to Miami, but it's one day at a time," Richardson said. "You don't want to do nothing too crazy to get hurt. At the same time, you want to be on time with everything, with your timing, the game conditioning and everything like that. Coach [Rob Chudzinski] lets me take my reps in practice here and there and we're just seeing how everything goes through with my shin. I wanted to be out there [in the preseason opener]. Coach makes the decisions. They just told me they were going to sit me down, and that was that. There were no words other than that. Coach made a decision, and it happened like that."