Browns TE Dae'Quan Wright enters the transfer portal while on the roster, and Todd Monken can barely process it

College football's new transfer-portal chaos has officially reached an NFL sideline. Browns tight end Dae'Quan Wright — a first-year player on Cleveland's active roster — entered the NCAA portal this week after winning an injunction that gives him another year of college eligibility, and then warmed up in uniform for Saturday's preseason game against the Bills anyway.

Mary Kay Cabot flagged the surreal scene before kickoff: a player simultaneously on an NFL roster and in the college portal, going through warmups as if nothing had changed. Zac Jackson noted Wright had not participated in any practices since being claimed, which makes his presence in uniform even stranger. He did not play in the 31-7 loss.

Browns head coach Todd Monken, who spent decades coaching in the college ranks before this job, was asked about it afterward and delivered one of the quotes of the preseason.

"Man, isn't this [stuff] crazy?" Monken told reporters. "I don't even know what to say. As far as I know, he's had a medical issue that wasn't allowing him to practice. That's a medical issue. It has nothing to do with me. He was cleared, so we dressed him just in case we had to have him."

Monken also admitted a clue had flown right past him: "I wondered why Lane Kiffin reached out to me a week ago. Now I know. I didn't call him back; I guess I should have." Kiffin's LSU is one of the programs aggressively positioning to welcome first-year NFL players back to college for another season under the new injunction landscape.

No NFL team has ever had to plan a depth chart around a player shopping for a better college offer mid-camp. With cutdowns a week away, Cleveland now gets to be the test case.