Browns head coach Hue Jackson is a good judge of quarterbacks, so his opinions about the subject are educated ones.

But at the end of the day, they are just that – good, well-thought-out opinions. They are not facts.

Alas, there are no guarantees in life other than death and taxes, so Jackson doesn’t know for sure if any of the quarterbacks he’s considering have what it takes to be successful with the Browns.

Free agent Robert Griffin III?

Carson Wentz, whose pro day at North Dakota State is today?

Cal product Jared Goff, who has already had his pro day?

For that matter, there’s even Josh McCown, the only member of the group who, of course, would not be a long-term solution?

Who knows if any of these guys will work in Cleveland?

Jackson, in fact, might have to go off the beaten path to find his man. It could be someone whose name has not rolled off the lips of anyone other than those of his mother.

And the coach fully realizes that. He gets it. He really gets it.

That’s why he’s not putting all of his his eggs into one basket, so to speak. Instead, he’s trying to fill his roster with several guys who he thinks all have a chance to be the quarterback this franchise has so desperately needed for so long. In that way, then, there is legitimate competition for the spot – not some made-up sham of a competition with a pre-determined finish – so that if one player fails to cut it, then the coach can simply turn to the next man in line.

Yes, it’s good to have choices.

Down the road – hopefully a lot sooner rather than a lot later – Jackson wants to find the man who can do the job. Quarterback competitions are for losing teams. They divide locker rooms and keep your whole team, not just the offense, from coming together under one man who will be the undisputed leader, the face of the franchise.

But the Browns are not there yet. While the other three teams in the AFC all have their guys at quarterback – the Baltimore Ravens with Joe Flacco, the Pittsburgh Steelers with Ben Roethlisberger and the Cincinnati Bengals with Andy Dalton – the Browns have no idea who their guy is. That’s how far the Browns are behind the others.

But, once the Browns find their guy, they will immediately make up a lot of ground on their rivals.

Until then, though, Jackson and the Browns have a lot of work to do.

And the best way to do that work is for the coach to assemble a group of quarterbacks he deems to be talented and let them fight it out. May the best man win.

At least Jackson hopes the best guy wins. If not, that’s a whole other issue, and problem.

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it – if, in fact, we come to it.

In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Again, I have full confidence that Jackson will find a way to make it work. Just don’t ask me how, or who, or when.

If you don’t have that kind of confidence in Jackson – or any confidence in him – then you at least have to like his method.

In the past, the Browns found one quarterback they thought could make it and went all in on him. When he failed – and they’ve all failed – they’ve been left in a lurch, with no one to turn to.

More is not less in this case. More is indeed more – more options, thus more chances to succeed. The math works.

That’s more than an educated guess, by the way. It’s a fact.

And Jackson knows it.

His chances for success in Cleveland will be based entirely on finding a quarterback, so with that much riding on it, he is going to place his trust in that fact.

Good choice.