It’s Cody Kessler and nobody else

I saw a story the other day on supposedly the most interesting player in the Browns rookie minicamp that starts today and runs through Sunday.


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The player in question was not quarterback Cody Kessler.

But it should have been.

Absolutely without question, it should have been.

To name any other player is laughable.

So it was laughable.

Very much do.

Yes, there are other interesting – and, more importantly, important – players in camp, the most prominent of them being, of course, wide receiver Corey Coleman, drafted at No. 15 overall.

But Coleman is not the most interesting, and certainly not the most important, player.

Again, that is Kessler, who was taken in the third round at No. 93 overall out of USC.

It is that way because he’s the quarterback, the most important position in team sports and one that these new Browns have yet to solve since they returned to the field in 1999.

We’ve said it at least a hundred times before and we’ll keep saying it until we get the point across: Until the Browns find the answer at quarterback, they’re never going to get where they want to go, and become who they want to be, no matter if the other players in camp are Corey Coleman, Corey Kluber, Corey Fuller and Corey Snyder.

And this weekend is when that process begins in earnest for this new Browns regime. It is by their ability to get things figured out at quarterback that Shash Brown, Hue Jackson and all the rest will be ultimately judged.

So watch Kessler. Watch the other guys, too, but really hone in on Kessler this weekend. Study his every move. Listen to what he says, and how he says it, and listen to what Jackson says about him, and how he says it.

Doing so will make “two-hand touch football,” as former Browns head coach Butch Davis used to call these offseason workouts in shorts with no pads, a lot more interesting.

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