When you think of Callaway, you think of a company in golf.

It’s the world’s largest manufacturer of golf clubs.

You don’t think of football.

Not at least until Saturday afternoon, when, on the third and final day of the NFL Draft, the Browns grabbed a Callaway and manufactured a big problem for themselves.

I’m talking about Antonio Callaway, a wide receiver from Florida who was taken by Cleveland in the fourth round, at No. 105 overall. He was the second player drafted by the Browns on Saturday, following Miami of Florida defensive lineman Chad Thomas, selected early in the third round.

While the Browns, and specifically John Dorsey — deserve to be praised for taking Thomas – he appears to be a good fit – the club and its general manager deserve to be skewered, lambasted, blasted – whatever word you like to use for the term “heavily criticized” – for choosing Callaway.

Yes, Callaway has talent. Yes, he can play. And yes, the Browns certainly went into the draft needing additional help at wide receiver.

None of that is the issue. It is that Callaway has a list of off-the-field issues – some alleged, including one involving claims of sexual assault, and some real – that’s about as long as a drive off the second tee.

The Browns knew that. They checked it all out. But they still drafted him.

To become involved in any, way, shape and form in sexual assault, especially in the climate in which we now live, is not just insensitive and repulsive. It is also stupid. It is a public relations disaster, particularly for a Browns team that, with a new front office trying to get off to a fresh start and impress its fans after two decades’ worth of struggles in the expansion era, certainly doesn’t need any more steps backward. This isn’t just a step backward. It is a quantum leap – or two or three.

When it came time for the Browns to make their fourth-round pick, there were plenty of other decent wideouts on the board – guys whose personal baggage includes Samsonite, not run-ins with the law. Yet the Browns bypassed them and chose the one with “trouble” written all over him.

Dorsey and head coach Hue Jackson both said the Browns believe they have the right structure in place to take on a player like Callaway. How silly.

Every team feels that way. These clubs in all pro sports – and colleges now, too – think they have the magic pill to straighten out troubled players. But they don’t. They just think they do. Such a pill doesn’t exist.

Browns fans deserve better than that from their team.

They deserve for their team to keep its shots on the fairway, not into the rough and sand traps.

That’s definitely not too much to ask.