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Johnny Manziel's 'heart wasn't in it' playing for Cleveland Browns

Johnny Manziel has long been out of the minds of Cleveland Browns fans considering the last time he appeared on their official depth chart was in March of 2016. When the Browns fired Ray Farmer as general manager and hired Sashi Brown, releasing Manziel was one of Brown's first personnel moves.

Manziel's short tenure with the team who drafted him in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft led many to wonder: What happened? Although he was not going to be the next Tom Brady as a passer, he brought a new skill-set to the position that Robert Griffin III showed a few years prior could be difficult for NFL defenses to handle.