A new angle shows running back Duke John...ack in quickly. New angle shows Duke Johnson recovers fumble
The NFL has received a lot of grief for an, at best, questionable fumble recovery call during Sunday's game between the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins. It's about to get worse. A new angle shows running back Duke Johnson Jr. clearly fumbles the football but gathers it back in quickly. Towards the end of the video, it appears Redskins lineback Will Compton, the player who recovered the allegeded fumble, is sitting on his knees empty handed.
The Browns have clearly moved on from the call. Johnson was asked this week about the odds of he and Isaiah Crowell each rushing for 1,000 yards.
"If I can hold onto the ball," Johnson joked.
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The video above corroborates a story from Browns offensive tackle Joe Thomas.
"After kind of watching some of the replays and talking to the guys on Washington and talking to Duke, basically the ball hit the ground, bounced right back to Duke and when the Washington player tried to scoop it, he got air. Then he just ... I don't know if because I was on top of him he was laying there acting like he had the football, or because he was laying there acting like he had the football Josh Norman jumped on him and the refs saw the posture of two Redskins cradling nothing on the ground and me trying to go after that nothing that [line judge Sarah Thomas] just assumed that the Redskins must have the ball even though Duke had the ball in his hands," Thomas continued.
"I think if she would have just looked over and saw Duke with the ball it would have been a different story. At that point when you're an official, you've just got to go with whatever you're going with and lie till you die at that point."
