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2018 Draft: How Baker Mayfield showed Hue Jackson, Browns he was their QB of the future

Hue Jackson is on record saying he likes his quarterbacks big and tall. But as the Browns’ search for their future, franchise signal-caller intensified, it became clear to him that guy was Oklahoma’s , an undersized former walk-on whom Cleveland made the first-overall pick Thursday night in the 2018 NFL Draft.

“I’m being very honest, it started at the Combine. Just talking to him and listening to some of the things he has said, and I go, ‘OK, well, that still didn’t convince me yet,’” Jackson said Saturday afternoon.

“Then going down and working him out in Norman (Okla.