Washington signed defensive back Ashton Lampkin on Tuesday

Jabrill Peppers Color Rush Jersey , the team announced. It waived linebacker DeMarquis Gates in a corresponding move.Lampkin has never played a regular-season NFL game.Lampkin entered the league in 2017 as an undrafted free agent, signing with the Chiefs. But he tore an anterior cruciate ligament in training camp.Lampkin was injured again during last summer’s training camp, and the Chiefs reached an injury settlement with him.He joined the Browns’ practice squad Dec. 13 and signed a futures contract with the team Jan. 5 before they waived him May 7.Gates played for the Memphis Express for the Alliance of American Football’s eight-game season. He had 72 tackles and a sack while playing for head coach Mike Singletary’s club.Gates went undrafted out of Ole Miss last year after playing 45 games for the school. He made 282 tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss and six sacks before leaving the school. He signed with the Browns in May and was waived in June when Cleveland signed kicker Ross Martin.Washington signed him April 11. The Browns aren’t happy with how their kickers have performed in the preseason.Greg Joseph and Austin Siebert each missed field goals from beyond 50 yards in Saturday’s game against the Colts and head coach Freddie Kitchens said on a Sunday conference call that the Browns “need somebody that can put the ball between the two yellow poles.”Kitchens was asked if there may be an issue with the holding on kicks E.J. Gaines Color Rush Jersey , but made it clear his issue is with the kickers above all else.“I don’t know about that,” Kitchens said, via Cleveland.com. “I know this, it didn’t go through the upright. I know there are no excuses coming from that room. Their job is to put the ball through the upright. I don’t care who is holding. I can go out there and hold it for them https://www.brownsfanshop.com/Damarious-Randall-Jersey , and it better go through the upright. That’s their job.”Kitchens said that he and General Manager John Dorsey have discussed adding a kicker from outside the organization, so Cleveland may be one of the places where the kicking carousel spins ahead of Week One.