Sam Darnold was quarterback No. 2 on the Browns' visitation list this week.
That doesn't mean he might not be their No. 1 choice.
Southern Cal's gun-slinging QB visited with Cleveland's coaching staff and executives on Wednesday as the team continues to evaluate players it may possibly take with the first overall pick in this month's NFL draft.
Darnold is the second top-flight QB this week to visit the team's facility in Berea
Dalvin Cook Jersey , Ohio. Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma's dynamic Heisman Trophy winner, met with coach Hue Jackson, general manager John Dorsey and others on Tuesday. The Browns will host UCLA's Josh Rosen, Wyoming's Josh Allen and Louisville's Lamar Jackson in the coming days.
Darnold is believed to be the favorite to land with the Browns, who are coming off a 0-16 season and have spent most of the past two decades futilely searching for a franchise quarterback.
The 20-year-old Darnold seems to check all the Browns' boxes: He's big (6-foot-3, 221 pounds), played against strong competition
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Jackson, Dorsey and owner Jimmy Haslam recently attended workouts for Darnold and Allen, considered the top two QBs on Cleveland's board. Dorsey, too, has a high regard for Mayfield and attended several of his games last season before he was hired by Cleveland.
During the visits this week, Jackson and his staff will get to know each of the quarterbacks on a more personal level. They'll also get a chance to gauge how well they process information
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"That's another piece of information for us," Jackson said last week. "That's probably the last piece of the process for us to bring them to campus and have an opportunity to sit down with them in a different environment and talk through the things."
Per league rules, the Browns, who also have the No. 4 overall pick and five in the first two rounds, can host 30 national prospects on pre-draft visits.
Odell Beckham Jr. isn’t on the trade market. He isn’t untouchable, either.
New York Giants owner John Mara on Sunday expressed his disappointment in the controversial star receiver.
Speaking at the NFL meetings, Mara said he is not angry with Beckham, who recently was seen in a video in bed with a woman and what appeared to be white powder
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”It’s too often he allows himself to be put in bad situations and uses bad judgment,” Mara said, adding that the video ”wasn’t helpful. He knows what we expect of him and now it’s up to him.
”We certainly are not shopping him. Coming off 3-13 when we played as poorly as we did, I can’t say anyone is untouchable.”
Beckham missed 12 games last year with a broken left ankle, so he was sidelined for most of New York’s awful season. He’s already made it clear he wants a new contract, and Mara admitted Beckham’s mercurial behavior – which also has brought problems on the field, including a one-game suspension in 2015 – could affect any talks. Beckham is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie deal and there has been strong speculation he will hold out during training camp.
”Contracts get done when they’re supposed to get done. We’ll just have to see what happens,” Mara said.
He added that Beckham playing out the contract is ”a possibility.”
The 2014 Offensive Rookie of the Year
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But so have incidents such as an on-field feud with then-Panthers cornerback Josh Norman for which Beckham was suspended a game in December 2015 for egregious fouls.
Beckham is scheduled to make almost $8.5 million this season and has said he wants to be the highest-paid receiver in the NFL.
For now, Pittsburgh’s All-Pro wideout Antonio Brown has the highest average yearly salary for the position, $17.5 million – more than double what Beckham makes.
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