The Browns were scheduled to hold their final OTA session of the 2016 offseason on Thursday, but coach Hue Jackson said on Wednesday that the team will be doing a charity golf outing rather than spending the day on the practice field.
With the only competition taking place on greens and from the tee, the Browns won’t get any more information about the football skills of the quarterbacks competing for the starting job this offseason. It doesn’t sound like one more day of practice was going to lead to a decision, anyway.
Jackson said that the team wants to make the right choice, “not just the fast choice,” and that they are not ready to pick between Robert Griffin III, Josh McCown, Cody Kessler, Connor Shaw and Austin Davis at this point. His comments about Griffin won’t do much to change the minds of those that think he will wind up with the job.
“He’s made tremendous strides,” Jackson said, via Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. “He’s getting better every day. See glimpses of him being extremely good.”
The Browns will hold a three-day minicamp next week to wrap up their offseason program. Based on what Jackson said Wednesday, it seems unlikely that those sessions will lead them to anoint a starter before hitting training camp this summer.