Hue address chance Rams draft Browns’ target

When the Browns signed Robert Griffin III to a two-year deal last month, we assumed that the decision would have little impact on whether the team would take a quarterback with the No. 2 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Now, with the draft just a week away, it certainly looks like the Browns’ plans do not, in fact, include drafting a quarterback that early; they could target another position, or trade out of the pick altogether and stockpile selections to help restock the roster.

On Tuesday, first-year coach Hue Jackson was asked point-blank: What will the Browns do if the Rams take the player they covet most with the top pick?

“Then they do. We can’t stop it,” Jackson said, according to the team’s website.

“At the end of the day, the Rams are going to do what they feel they need to do and the Browns are going to do what we feel to do. There’s no exact science to all of this. It’s going to unfold as it’s going to unfold.

“If I know [executive vice president of football operations] Sashi [Brown], he’s prepared and ready for anything that can happen over the next couple of weeks up to and through the draft. That’s the way you have to be and that’s the way you have to play it. We don’t get to truly control your own destiny that way. You’ve got to go with it a little bit and understand what’s happening.”

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