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Browns DC: Josh McCown played with broken collarbone

Scott R. Galvin / USA TODAY Sports

Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton may have let slip a detail about quarterback Josh McCown's injured left shoulder the team would've preferred to keep secret.

Horton praised McCown's toughness Friday, telling reporters the veteran passer played through a broken collarbone in Week 2.

McCown didn't miss a snap in the game despite the ailment, which was initially presented as a soft tissue injury.

"I know it's a shoulder/clavicle injury, (but) I don't know that it's totally broken,'' head coach Hue Jackson said after the game, according to Mary Kay Cabot of the Plain Dealer. "I don't think that. But I know that there's something that's not right. I think it's more of a deep sprain at this time than anything. But I don't think there's anything totally broken.''

Regardless of whether McCown has a broken bone, it could be a while before we see him back on the field.

Rookie Cody Kessler will start Week 3 against the Miami Dolphins.

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