Mike Pettine sees Browns quarterback situation as ‘open’
By Mike Dyce
The Cleveland Browns drafted Texas A&M’s Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel in the first-round of the 2014 NFL Draft. Still, heading into the training camp it looks like homegrown product Brian Hoyer will get the nod to start training camp.
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Despite that, Browns head coach Mike Pettine still sees it as an open quarterback competition.
“I see it as open,” Pettine said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Brian will be the guy there day one of practice. But we’re going to let them compete as best we can. We don’t want to overtax the offensive line and we want to mix and match the groups and we’re going to have a plan for it. We are going to have a sense of when we want to name the starter.
“We might know very quickly or we might take some time. There are some things open. We might let each one of them start a preseason game and we think they’ll both get some good reps in front of a big crowd at the Family Day (Aug. 2 at the University of Akron).”
Pettine added: “The beauty of the competition is that we have two guys that have the ability to start. Post-draft you feel a lot better about it.”