In his first in-person press conference with the Cleveland media since signing with the Browns as a free agent, quarterback Robert Griffin III was asked on Wednesday if he had been humbled by how his stay ended with the Washington Redskins.

He gave kind of a convoluted answer to that one, saying that if you talk about being humbled, you haven’t been humbled, so he wasn’t going to talk about it.

Huh?

Whatever.

I’ll answer for him straightforward by saying yes, of course, he was humbled. Anyone would have been humbled. After all, the guy’s just human.

He came into the NFL in 2012 like perhaps no rookie quarterback ever had, setting records and leading a very average Redskins team to the playoffs.

It doesn’t get much better than that. So RGIII was on the mountaintop.

A major knee injury and a bunch of poor performances later, he was on the scout team – sometimes as a safety, if you can believe that – while not seeing the field at all during the 2015 regular season.

It doesn’t get much worse than that. So RGIII was in the deepest valley of his football career.

News flash: His ego took a hit. Everybody knew that.

But here’s what perhaps you didn’t know. Here’s what you need to take away from Wednesday’s presser. Indeed, if you don’t remember anything else, remember this: RGIII hasn’t lost his confidence. Not in the least bit. He said as much to the media.

Yes, yes, of course, people can say anything they want. Words are cheap, and since we don’t have any actions to go by yet, with this being just the first full week of April and the practices that amount to anything are still a long ways off, we have to look for something else to substantiate his words – something that is also more powerful than words, but admittedly not as powerful at those actions, which are the be-all and end-all determining factor.

And what might that be?

Body language, which says a lot more than words ever could, and in what can be described as a much louder voice.

For you see, while your mouth can mislead others as to what you’re really thinking and feeling, your body can’t. Those words are invisible and intangible. They can play tricks. They can shape themselves into anything you want them to be.

But what comes from your body can’t lie. It’s real. It’s tangible. It’s there for all to see. You can’t fake it.

It’s you – the heart and soul of you.

In that regard, then, RGIII’s body told us that, despite having an almost historic first-to-worst crash and burn in the last three seasons, he still believes in himself.

Greatly.

Fully.

Completely.

Unabashedly.

Unwaveringly.

His smile said so. It was ever-present. You don’t smile unless you’re happy, unless you’re positive and feel good about yourself. It was that kind of smile, not cold but warm, not condescending but friendly and engaging.

Forget the words, but rather the ease with which he uttered them said so. At no time in the presser did he seem irritated at anything or anybody. The questions hurled at him about his mindset at this point of his career, having to start over at Cleveland after starting so well at Washington, were tests to see if they could get to him. But he passed all those tests with flying colors. He was cool. He was patient. Unlike former General Manager Ray Farmer’s infamous presser last year in which he toweled himself off as if being questioned under a hot, bright lamp, which in essence he was, RGIII didn’t sweat. Not at all.

You can’t fake sweating, either. If your body wants to sweat, it will sweat, regardless of what you want it to do. And sweating is a sign of weakness, of uncertainty, of …. well, a lack of confidence.

That confidence was a big part of what made RGIII what he was at Baylor and then in that rookie season with Washington.

He still has that confidence, but the key to his not just keeping it, but also building upon it, once the action heats up, will be for head coach Hue Jackson to put RGIII into situations when he can have success. The more success, the more confidence. It’s just that simple.

Jackson needs to get RGIII back into that comfort zone of doing what he does best with a little bit of this and a little bit of that – a little bit of running when that is what’s needed and a little bit of passing when that is what’s needed, all the while making sure he stays healthy. It’s a delicate balance, and it’s not going to be easy to find it.

But Jackson is confident he can find it, just as RGIII is confident that once the coach does, he, too, can find it – can find his groove.

Again.

That’s what we learned on Wednesday by what RGIII’s body “told” us.

And confidence is a great thing. It can trump a lot of bad things.

We’ll see if it’s enough to get RGIII back on track, which, if it happened, would do a lot to get the Browns back on track, which, in turn, would also help Jackson keep his job for the long haul. They are all indelibly linked. One does not – can not – happen without the other.

It’s just 2½ weeks into spring, so everyone can be confident now. If they still have that confidence – and there are the results to back it up — 2½ weeks into fall, then that will mean a lot more.

So while we can’t get too excited about that confidence at this point, it’s a whole lot better than the alternative.

And with the way things have gone in this expansion era for the Browns, you have to jump at the chance to celebrate these small victories.

After all, it’s an incentive for everyone to keep going.