Todd MShay at The Ringer:<\/a><\/p>\nNussmeier is an undersized quarterback with adequate arm strength and mobility. He brings some durability concerns and a history of turnovers, but his instincts, pocket awareness, anticipation, and ball placement give him a path to develop into a starter in the right system.<\/p>\n
A gritty, competitive player, he plays through contact and doesn\u2019t flinch in the pocket\u2014evidenced by a game against Oklahoma in 2024 when he returned from a shoulder injury after missing only six plays to lead the team to a 37-17 win. But I would like to see him practice self-preservation. He looks uncomfortable sliding at the end of runs, which is a concern given his aggressive play style, smaller frame, and injury history.<\/p>\n
A team will draft Nussmeier to be an early-career backup with the intention of developing him into a starter down the road. Tony Romo is the high-end NFL comp, but Gardner Minshew II and Jake Browning are also reasonable projections.<\/p>\n
Fit with the Browns<\/p>\n
Heading into the 2025 season, Nussmeier was a quarterback who many thought would be a first-round pick in this year\u2019s draft. But injuries limited him to just nine games with the Tigers, and he was unable to finish his college career on a high note.<\/p>\n
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Nussemeier has experience after spending five years at LSU, but has he already hit his ceiling as a quarterback? There is no doubt that the Browns need all the help they can get at the position, but they should be setting their sights on something more than the next Gardner Minshew II.<\/p>\n
Browns Player Drafting Could Impact<\/p>\n
If the Browns draft a quarterback, then Dillon Gabriel is likely the odd man out. (He may be anyway.) If the Browns draft a good quarterback, then Shedeur Sanders could be taking his show somewhere else this fall.<\/p>\n
Priority: Nothing else matters until you get a quarterback.<\/p>\n
What are your thoughts on Garrett Nussmeier? Should the Browns take a gamble on him? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is extremely difficult to win in the NFL, even with a top quarterback on the roster. Which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1238,280841,1266,55563,17078,55559,1222,593,280840,61251,280839,1244,85,8543,100864,34227],"class_list":["post-572330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-completion-percentage","tag-dillon-gabriel","tag-gardner-minshew","tag-garrett-nussmeier","tag-jake-browning","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-nfl","tag-nussmeier","tag-quarterback","tag-quarterback-rating","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-sports","tag-the-browns","tag-tony-romo","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}