Browns considering trading Manziel with Marcus Mariota

Browns considering trading Manziel with Marcus Mariota

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The Cleveland Browns have discussed trading with the Tennessee Titans to move up to the second spot in the NFL draft so the Browns can take quarterback Marcus Mariota, a source familiar with the discussions told ESPN.com.

The Browns, according to the source, offered the Titans their two first-round picks -- 12th and 19th overall.

On the Titans side, a source with the Titans told ESPN that the Browns had not made an offer for the No. 2 overall pick. Another source close to the Browns said there have been no substantive talks.

Cleveland drafted Johnny Manziel in last year's first round, but the former Texas A&M Aggies star flopped in his first season.

The Browns signed Josh McCown and have Connor Shaw on the roster in addition to Manziel.

Manziel recently spent more than 70 days in a rehab facility for an undisclosed issue. He reported to Cleveland's training facility on April 20 for the start of the team's offseason program.

Browns All-Pro left tackle Joe Thomas has been impressed with Manziel's effort so far in his comeback attempt after rehab.

"Last year on a Saturday, you might see a picture of him on Instagram floating in a swan drinking champagne," Thomas told NFL Network on Tuesday, via the Akron Beacon Journal. "This year on a Saturday if you came in the building, you'd see him studying his playbook and watching film with his coach. It's pretty apparent he's realized how important football is to him, and he's realized that in the NFL you can't get away with maybe some of the things that you did in college because it's a big boys' game now."

Earlier this month, Thomas told ESPNCleveland.com Manziel "lost probably a lot of trust among the guys on the team last year by the way he handled himself once he became the starter."

"Towards the end of the season, even when he wasn't there, obviously, missing meetings and practice and things like that, it's just little things, and when you're a quarterback it's the little things that are the most important," Thomas said in the interview with NFL Network. "I think those were the things that were apparent by the end of the year, and I think he saw them in himself based on the things that he said right after the season and the steps and the actions that he took in January, February and March. To see the guy in the building right now is night and day from where he was last year in his commitment, and I think he has a bright future ahead of him."

Re: Browns considering trading Manziel with Marcus Mariota

Manziel is a train wreck. Mariota will probably be a much better player. Why would anyone want Manziel?

Re: Browns considering trading Manziel with Marcus Mariota

Give that little Rodent to the Jets.  He'll fit right in.