But to think that he’s going to walk right back into a starting job is being delusional. He may not ever play a regular-season game for the Browns again. We’ll just have to wait and see. If he does suit up again for the Browns, it won’t be until at least the Week 5 game against the New England Patriots on Oct. 9 at First Energy Stadium. He will be suspended for the first four games, just like Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. So both could be making their debuts that afternoon.

 But you already knew all that. And you also know all the different scenarios that could happen with Gordon because it has been discussed here on this website and countless other places.

 So going forward, here are two other things you need to know about the Gordon issue:

*Gordon will say all the right things – he always does in these situations – but he had better get it through his head that unlike the past head coaches on both the pro and college levels for whom he has played, Browns head coach Hue Gordon is neither a pushover nor an enabler. He doesn’t mess around. He doesn’t owe Gordon a thing because he wasn’t the one to bring him here, so there’s no guarantee that Jackson will even keep him on the roster. As such, Gordon better bring his A game both on and off the field.

*The best thing – for both sides — about Gordon being reinstated now is that he has the entire training camp and preseason to prove his worth to the Browns, and in turn, they have all that time to evaluate him. And with that, then, Gordon may well get to spend some with former Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson, who will be a volunteer coach working with the rookie receivers.

 You remember Johnson. He walked to the beat of a  different drummer. Who better to work with a troubled soul like Gordon than a former troubled soul? The Browns might have lucked their way into a very advantageous situation.

 Whatever happens, it will make what was already shaping up as an interesting camp, even more so.