Browns VP: Trade no guarantee RG III will start

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."

Here's one way to look at the Browns' decision to not draft a quarterback with the second pick: Any young quarterback comes with…