Jul 14th 2008 7:58AM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: BrownsCleveland Browns wide receiver Joe Jurevicius is 33 years old and has had four surgeries on his right knee this off-season. That doesn’t sound like a guy who is likely to play football this season.

But Jurevicius apparently intends to. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Jurevicius expects to play, and that his most recent surgery was a simple arthroscopic procedure, and that he does not expect to have the microfracture surgery that he has been reported to need.

I’ll believe Jurevicius is playing when I see it. Pro Football Talk reports that he’s privately saying he doesn’t expect to be back, and it just seems extremely hard to believe that a guy with a knee this problematic is going to be able to play wide receiver in the NFL into his mid-30s. I like Jurevicius and would love to see him on the field again, but I don’t think I will.