The Browns’ trade of quarterback Cody Kessler to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Wednesday for a conditional pick in the 2019 NFL Draft should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone on several different fronts.

First of all, the Browns already have two quarterbacks in Tyrod Taylor, whom they acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Bills to be their starter this season, and backup Kevin Hogan. They will select another one with their No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft to be their franchise quarterback, and may well take another one as a long-term project in a later round.

Kessler and Hogan are, in many ways, one in the same in being guys who can back up to some level of competency but can’t start long-term. They’re just not good enough, as they’ve already proven. However, Hogan has the edge with the Browns’ new general manager, John Dorsey, who drafted him in the 2016 when he was working for the Kansas City Chiefs. So you could see the release of Kessler coming at some point from a mile away. It was just a matter of time, and Dorsey decided that now was that time.

That the Browns got anything in return for him – even a draft choice in the final round a year from now – is a bonus, because he had no future in Cleveland. With the Jaguars, it might be a different situation as they are looking for someone to play behind Blake Bortles, who just got a fat new contract.

And then there’s the fact that when new GMs – new regimes – come to teams, they systematically get rid of a good portion of who they inherit. They grab a big broom and sweep them right out the door. They’re going to get their own guys in there – guys they know and in whom they have faith. A lot of that has already happened with the Browns since the end of the 2017 season, which came a few weeks after Dorsey arrived, and much more will take place before the 2018 season begins.

But when it’s a quarterback who is moved – or added – it is, of course, a much bigger deal.