BEREA, Ohio — It turns out Browns coach Hue Jackson did actually discipline wide receiver Antonio Callaway for the rookie’s recent possession-of-marijuana citation and failure to inform the team about it.

But instead of punishing Callaway by benching him in Thursday’s 20-10, preseason-opening win over the New York Giants, Jackson made Callaway pay by playing him more than anyone else on offense.

“I was trying to make him play the whole game if we could,” Jackson said Sunday. “I didn’t want him to come out.”

Why?

“Because that was part of the consequence of what he’d been through, and he knows it,” Jackson replied. “That’s what it was. Either you sit him or make him play. I thought it was better to make him play, make him play as long as he could. There were a couple times he kept waving to come out. We said, ‘No, stay in there.’ ”

What is not good is Callaway was idle for the vast majority of team drills Sunday because he suffered a rib injury against the Giants.

A fourth-round draft pick from the University of Florida, Callaway started against the Giants and played 54 snaps, or 78 percent of the Browns’ plays on offense. After dropping one pass and having two others deflect off his hands in the first half, Callaway had a stellar performance after halftime and finished with three catches for 87 yards and a touchdown, a 54-yard catch-and-run on a pass from rookie Baker Mayfield.

—Akron Beacon Journal