Browns VP: Trade no guarantee RG III will start

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BEREA, Ohio – Trading down from the second to eighth pick in the draft does not guarantee Robert Griffin III will be the Cleveland Browns’ starting quarterback, team officials said Thursday.

“Listen,” vice president of football operations Sashi Brown said, “we have Connor (Shaw) and Austin (Davis) and Josh (McCown) here competing along with Robert and that’s what we want to provide, which is competition at that position.

“We won’t be panicked. We feel those guys are going to compete their butts off, get into the system and we’ll evaluate it as time bears out.”

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Brown pointedly said that Griffin is not the team’s starter, that he has to compete to win the job.

“We haven’t solved that (position) by any stretch by acquiring Griffin, but that’s certainly one of the things that we were able to accomplish this offseason,” Brown said.

Griffin shrugged off the trade, saying …

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