The Browns finally got their quarterback of the future – at least this year’s version of it – when they took Notre Dame’s DeShone Kizer two-thirds of the way through the second round, at No. 52 overall, in the 2017 NFL Draft on Friday night.

Thirteen picks later, at No. 65 overall with the first choice of the third round, the Browns took a big run-stopper in defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Ogunjobi will likely play sooner – and a lot more – in 2017 and thus will be of value to the Brows right away as the learning curve in the middle of the defensive line is considerably less. But it is obviously Kizer, because he plays quarterback and because that’s the most important position in team sports, who drew the most attention – by far – in Cleveland on the second day of the draft.

At just over 6-foot-4 and 233 pounds, Kizer looks the part of an AFC North quarterback – someone who can take the pounding from the defenses in Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. With the likes of the Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger, the Ravens’ Joe Flacco and, to a little bit lesser of a degree, the Bengals’ Andy Dalton, this is a division of big, strong, durable quarterbacks. The last time the Browns had a great quarterback, from 1985-93 in the division’s predecessor, the AFC Central, he was a big guy, too, in Bernie Kosar.

Whether Kizer can even begin to approach any of these other guys in terms of production or winning is anyone’s guess – he will have a long, long way to go in that aspect — but because of where he was drafted, he immediately moves ahead of the team’s two other prominent quarterbacks, Cody Kessler and Brock Osweiler, not so much in where he will start the season, but with where the Browns think he can go in the long run.

But, just as there are with any of the other top-tier prospects in this year’s underwhelming quarterback class, there are red flags with Kizer. Why wasn’t he more productive individually with the Fighting Irish? Why didn’t he win more? Why did he have such a public falling out with his head coach, Bran Kelly?

Why? Why? Why?

Indeed, none of the quarterbacks in this class enter the NFL the way Kosar, Roethlisberger and Flacco did – that is, with much pomp and circumstance.

But Kizer has a great teacher of quarterbacks in Browns head coach Hue Jackson. His expertise – and resume — at the position is why Jackson was hired about 16 months ago. The Browns knew that in order to win and get the struggling franchise turned around, they had to get a guy who understood quarterbacks. If Jackson – and Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta and Andrew Berry – are to keep their job over the long haul, then the coach must develop Kizer. Kizer is truly Hue’s guy. They are joined at the hip. One can’t succeed without the other.

Sure, depending on what happens with Kizer this season, the Browns could take another quarterback high in the draft next year when the class of quarterbacks should be much better overall, but Hue can’t wait around for that to happen. In the meantime, he must make Kizer into an emerging pro passer.

It won’t be easy, but if Jackson is truly the quarterback guru he is believed to be, then he should be able to do it. That process – watching Jackson take Kizer under his wing and getting him to grow – will be more important than watching the Browns try to win in 2017, for they are still probably a year way in that regard.

And really, again because of the importance of the position, the team won’t really grow much without a quarterback.

So let the Kizer era in Cleveland begin. In fact, it officially did so on Friday night.