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Ray Farmer Discusses Decision to Draft Johnny Manziel
- Updated: April 26, 2016
The Cleveland Browns’ renovated front office will attempt to set the franchise on a prosperous new path when the 2016 NFL draft begins Thursday evening, but one member of the old guard shed some light on one of the team’s most notorious errors in advance of the annual selection process.
Speaking to CBS Sports Radio’s Damon Amendolara on Monday evening (via CBSSports.com’s Will Brinson), former Browns general manager Ray Farmer explained the process that led the team to select embattled quarterback Johnny Manziel with a first-round pick in the 2014 draft:
There are very few decisions made in anybody’s draft in a vacuum. The GM very, very, very rarely says ‘Hey i’m taking this guy and there’s nothing anybody else can say about it.’ The head coach doesn’t do it, the owner doesn’t do it. In that case, I would tell you that there were a lot of conversations that happened and the selection was made.
While Farmer doesn’t offer tremendous insight into who signed off on …
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