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What If? The Cleveland Browns Offseason That Produced No Quarterback

By Nick Dudukovich

Mar 1, 2017; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Cleveland Browns executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown speaks to the media during the 2017 NFL Combine at the Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 1, 2017; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Cleveland Browns executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown speaks to the media during the 2017 NFL Combine at the Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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Are the Cleveland Browns dumb enough to field Robert Griffin, Cody Kessler and Kevin Hogan as their QBs in 2017?

It’s time to worry. The Harvard educated Cleveland Browns front office can’t provide a simple question regarding the future of Robert Griffin III.

When asked what the Browns will do with Griffin, who is due a $750,000 roster bonus later this month, Cleveland’s Executive VP of Football Operations said the franchise hasn’t decided what it will do, but then said he expects Griffin to be around for spring practice in April.

Makes a ton of sense, right?

Imagine going through all of this winter winter after the worst year in franchise history and the offseason produces no Jimmy Garoppolo. No Mitch Trubisky. No DeShone Kizer. No Deshaun Watson. Heck, not even Tyrod Taylor.

If the Browns bring back RG3, Cody Kessler and Kevin Hogan, so be it.

That’s what ESPN Cleveland’s Tony Grossi took away from Brown’s meeting with the press when discussing Griffin’s future with the franchise.

"Grossi wrote “Still, Brown sounded like bringing back Griffin, Cody Kessler and Kevin Hogan is an option the team has discussed. ‘That could be the reality that we’re faced with, so it’s something that you have to prepare for,’ Brown said.”"

OK, this is the NFL’s silly season. Everything you think is true isn’t, and even things you think may be true aren’t. Teams are trying to gain leverage over one another while positioning themselves to score in April’s draft.

Typically, this is how one should view the offseason of an NFL team, but this Browns’ front office doesn’t afford the masses who’ve spent the better part of two decades watching losing football at the Factory of Sadness with that luxury.

What have Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta and Andrew Berry done to breed any kind of confidence?

Maybe this is just my lowly Kent State education talking. So far, they balked at an opportunity to take a potential franchise quarterback in Carson Wentz. By trading down in last spring’s draft, they picked up a small receiver who had a minimal impact in his rookie season.

Finding the QB should’ve been priority No. 1 for this front office and their new coach Hue Jackson.

It clearly wasn’t, and now the Browns are worse off than ever.

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Of the 14 draft choices the Browns made in 2016, none were named to any all-rookie teams. NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks ranked how the 2016 draft classes affected each team, and the Browns came in at No. 27, meaning Cleveland’s first-year players had zero to little impact.

The quarterback they took–Kessler–was overdrafted in the world of popular opinion. He’s great at dinking and dunking, but the USC product hasn’t shown he can throw the ball over 20 yards accurately and consistently.

The front office has let players leave–who could’ve been retained–without having suitable replacements (Mitchell Schwartz).

These are the same people that trotted the injury prone RG3 out there last season, and followed him up with Josh McCown, Kevin Hogan, Kessler and good ‘ole Charlie Whitehurst. Yeah, you forgot about Charlie, didn’t you?

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The Browns can’t be so stupid to actually fill a QB room with Griffin, Kessler and Hogan. But you never know, because most of us are still waiting for them to prove us wrong.

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