Cleveland's Cribbs Presents Variety Of Threats

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Considering the Packers already this year have faced Chicago's Devin Hester, Cincinnati's Chad Ochocinco, St. Louis' Steven Jackson and Minnesota's Adrian Peterson, when Head Coach Mike McCarthy called Cleveland's Joshua Cribbs "one of our toughest challenges of the year" this week, that's saying something.

But McCarthy wasn't just talking up Cribbs because he happens to be the most dynamic player on an otherwise struggling Browns team that's 1-5. Cribbs truly might be as big a multi-threat player as there is in the NFL right now.

He returns kickoffs. He returns punts. He plays wide receiver and takes handoffs on end-arounds. And he is a "Wildcat" quarterback who is still progressing in that role.

Normally when a team's playmaker is listed as a wide receiver, like Cribbs is, the defensive game plan targets him to try to keep the ball out of his hands as much as possible. But that won't work with Cribbs. He's going to get the ball, almost anywhere on the fie..

Source: Packers.com
 

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