CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns waived running back L.J. Scott a day after it was reported that the Youngstown product could be done with football. The Browns signed Scott on Monday.

WFMJ’s Dana Balash tweeted on Wednesday that a source close to Scott told him the running back decided not to play football and was leaving the Browns.

.@21WFMJSports Source close to LJ Scott tells me LJ has decided to not play football and has left the #Browns — Dana Balash (@DanaBalash21) May 15, 2019

Replacing Scott on the roster is running back D’Ernest Johnson. Johnson is 5-foot-10, 208 pounds and in his first season out of South Florida. He most recently played for the Orlando Apollos of the now-defunct Alliance of American Football where he rushed for 372 yards. At South Florida, Johnson was the program’s all-time leader in all-purpose yardage with 4,186 between 2014-17.

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