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Browns sign trick-shot quarterback Alex Tanney

Alex Tanney

In this July 1, 2011, photo provided by Monmouth College, Monmouth quarterback Alex Tanney, left, talks with Daniel Browning Smith, right, and a cameraman from “Stan Lee’s Superhumans,” which airs on televison’s History Channel as they prepare for a shot at the school in Monmouth, Ill. A five-minute YouTube video was enough to make Tanney an overnight sensation for displaying his uncanny accuracy. Now the Division III Monmouth College product will provide the Buffalo Bills a firsthand look to see whether he has a future in the NFL. (AP Photo/Monmouth College, Dan Nolan)

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If the Browns want to run a trick play on which the quarterback drops back to pass, throws the ball deep into the end zone, bounces it off the goal post and into the receiver’s hands for a touchdown, they’ve got their man.

OK, technically that wouldn’t work (a pass that hits the goal post is incomplete), but they’ve still got the guy who can do it: Alex Tanney revealed on Twitter that he is heading to Cleveland.

Tanney is the quarterback best known for posting a trick-shot video of himself to YouTube, showing his ability to make absurd throws into moving cars, bouncing passes off goal posts from all angles, and making full-court basketball shots with footballs. The trick-shot video got him noticed as an undrafted rookie out of Monmouth College, and he has spent time with the Chiefs and Cowboys.

Now he’ll play for the Browns. And you can already hear the calls from Cleveland fans for Tanney to replace Brandon Weeden.