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Frye said he expects to start in Baltimore if he is healthy, but he said it would not be fair to Derek Anderson to sit out all week and then all of a sudden be ready to play Sunday.
Anderson subbed for Frye at halftime of the Kansas City game and played all four quarters in Pittsburgh.
One of Frye's best games this season was against Baltimore Sept. 24. He completed 21-of-33 passes for 298 yards and one touchdown on a 58-yard strike to Braylon Edwards. All the good was undone when he threw an interception in the end zone with 3:28 left. The Ravens won the game 15-14 on a 52-yard field goal by Matt Stover with 20 seconds to play.
''That was another game we should have won,'' Frye said. ''We were down there ready to score and put them away. Those games hurt.''
Frye has been sacked 43 times and knocked down at least as many times after throwing the ball. It was on one of those knockdowns he was hurt in the Kansas City game. He braced himself as he fell, bruising a bone in his wrist.
''The tricky thing about this is everything goes through this for me to be able to play because I'm throwing the football,'' Frye said. ''If it was anywhere else, I'd be ready to play.''
Frye has completed 227-of-358 passes for 2,267 yards this season. He has thrown 10 touchdown passes and 16 interceptions.
Roye finished
Orpheus Roye won't play again this year. The 11-year veteran was placed on injured reserve yesterday with a left knee injury. The same injury kept him out the game Thursday in Pittsburgh and the one Dec. 3 vs. Kansas City. He missed the game against Baltimore Sept. 24 with a shoulder injury and the one in San Diego with a hamstring injury.
Roye finishes 2006 with 38 tackles in nine games. He made 95 tackles in 16 games last year.
Surgery to repair Roye's left medial collateral ligament will not be necessary, coach Romeo Crennel said. Roye said he expects to make a full recovery and be back at left defensive end next year.
''I'll go through the offseason, get healthy, get stronger, come back and try to have a good season,'' Roye said. ''A lot of injuries slowed me down this year. The good thing is I can heal and come back stronger.''
Simon Fraser will replace Roye as a starter.
End added
The Browns can't beat the Steelers on the filed, but they can raid the Pittsburgh practice squad.
Yesterday the Browns claimed 6-3, 302-pound Orien Harris, a 6-3, 302 pound end from Miami (Fla.) and put him on the active roster. He fills the vacancy created when Roye was put on injured reserve.
Harris was a fourth-round draft choice by the Steelers last April. He was among the final cuts Sept. 2 and put on the Steelers practice squad two days later. In college, he started 34 of 48 games at Miami and made 159 tackles with 11 sacks, 54 quarterback pressures and 30 tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
Northcutt hurts shoulder
Punt returner/wide receiver Dennis Northcutt has a shoulder injury. It is being evaluated. Northcutt was unavailable for comment yesterday. Crennel said Northcutt is unsure when in the Pittsburgh game the injury occurred. Northcutt dropped three passes in Heinz Field.
Defensive end Nick Eason (foot) and linebacker D'Qwell Jackson (turf toe) are additions to the injury report that already includes guard Joe Andruzzi (knee), linebacker Willie McGinest (pectoral muscle) and tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. (knee).
Players were off Saturday and Sunday. Crennel is hopeful the extra rest will speed their recovery.
JSchudel@news-herald.com
