It didn’t go well for Mathieu. The Chiefs got a tackle for loss on the play, but Mathieu, who ended the play on the ground with Teller on top of him, walked back to the defensive huddle and said to his teammates, “77 just put me on my ass!”“They won,” Teller said in an interview with cleveland.com on Wednesday when the Mathieu clip was mentioned. “So it’s like, obviously, you can enjoy it a little bit more when you win. So it’s a bittersweet feeling.”Teller isn’t on social media, so he’s not always aware when something he did is going viral, at least not right away, like the Mathieu video, which currently has 1.7 million views on Twitter.
“All of a sudden, you have people texting you like, ‘Oh my gosh, that gator picture,’” Teller said. “You’re like, ‘How the heck did you see that gator pic?’”
He’s entering his fourth season in the league and his second as a full-time starter. The Browns acquired him from Buffalo a few hours before their preseason finale in 2019 along with a 2021 seventh-round pick, giving back fifth and sixth round picks in exchange.
After starting seven games as a rookie for Buffalo, he started nine games for the Browns in his first season with the team. In what was supposed to be one of the more prominent training camp battles in 2020, Teller quietly and efficiently won the job and started 11 games last season — he missed three games with a calf injury and two more games with an ankle injury — landing on Pro Football Focus’ first-team All-Pro list and second-team All-Pro by the Associated Press.
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