Browns quarterback Connor Shaw seems like a nice young man.

As such, he is the kind of personality that a team wants in its locker room.

And he must be a pretty decent player, or else he wouldn’t be in the NFL. A lot of talented guys never get this far.

Despite all that, I have to take issue – great issue, in fact – with something he reportedly said recently. Shaw apparently said to a paper in South Carolina that the Browns’ QB job is “open for competition.”

While that’s true, Shaw said it in reference to his belief that he is among those with a legitimate chance to win the job.

Sure, if the quarterback position gets hits hard – really, really hard — by injuries, just as the Browns did in 1988 when they went through quarterbacks like water, Shaw could indeed be elevated to the starting job, which would not be a good thing at all. Otherwise – and let’s be really clear about in saying this – Shaw has absolutely, positively, emphatically no chance to get the nob.

None.

Zero.

Not any.

Never.

Ever.

Bernie Kosar, Brian Sipe, Frank Ryan and Bill Nelsen have more chance to be under center for the Browns’ first offensive play from scrimmage in the regular-season opener than Connor Shaw.

Really.

Honestly.

We’re not kidding.

The starter for that game will almost certainly be Robert Griffin III. If that experiment blows up in the Browns’ faces and RG3 fizzles out, then the starter will be the quarterback the Browns are expected to take at No. 2 overall in the NFL Draft, either Jared Goff or Carson Wentz.

Nobody else is in the mix.

Not Connor Shaw.

Not Robert Shaw, the late actor.

Not some shah from the Arab world.

Not Austin Davis.

Not Austin Carr.

Not Austin Powers.

Not Sammy Davis Jr.

Not Ben Davis.

Not Steve Austin.

Let me repeat this: It’s going to be either RG3 – probably — or some rookie deemed to be the franchise quarterback.

Connor Shaw, Austin Davis and any other quarterback who may be hanging onto the end of the roster as the season starts will all be insurance policies.

An insurance policy, whatever or whomever is being insured, is not used unless it has to be. And if it has to be, then there’s a big problem somewhere.

The Browns already have enough problems on that roster. They don’t need any more, especially at quarterback, which has been their most problematic position since the beginning of the expansion era in 1999.

It’s the offseason, specifically the last weeks leading up to the draft. So it’s the aptly-named “silly season,” when anything and anybody is up for discussion, no matter how absurd it or he is.

That was the case when Shaw inferred he has a chance to start the season at quarterback.

He’s not at South Carolina anymore. This is the NFL.

And again, while the Browns have all kinds of major issues, they aren’t major enough for Connor Shaw to have a chance to be on the first-team offense.

To say anything else is to be … well, silly.