The Plain Dealer transcribed Browns QB coach Dowell Loggains’ version of the story from Arkansas ESPN radio.
Browns draft Johnny Manziel because he texted them to
Cleveland’s draft advisors: Johnny Manziel’s text messages, homeless man.
“We’re sitting there and they keep showing Johnny on T.V. and Johnny and I are texting and he shoots me a text and he says, ‘I wish you guys would come get me. Hurry up and draft me because I want to be there. I want to wreck this league together.”
“When I got that text, I forwarded it to the owner and to the head coach (Mike Pettine). I’m like ‘this guy wants to be here. He wants to be part of it.’ As soon as that happened, Mr. Haslam said, ‘pull the trigger. We’re trading up to go get this guy.”’
Here’s an SB Nation illustration of how this *really* went down.
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