Rookie QB Taylen Green is embracing whatever role Todd Monken has in mind for him with Browns. Cleveland's head man is taking it one step at a time with his new weapon, though.
Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken is hoping to figure out who his starting quarterback will be this spring. It's likely to be one of Deshaun Watson, Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel, but a fourth QB entered the room two weeks back at the NFL Draft.
General manager Andrew Berry used a sixth-round pick to select Arkansas signal-caller Taylen Green. At 6-foot-6, 230 pounds, Green is a freak athlete with a strong arm. And while any new QB comes with plenty of excitement, Green is likely still too raw to legitimately factor into the starting QB competition.
That doesn't mean he won't have a role for the 2026 Browns, though. New head coach Todd Monken has expressed an open-mindedness to utilizing Green's incredible athleticism in specialized situations.
What that could potentially look like is very much to be determined. But Green, who spoke at Day 1 of the Browns rookie minicamp on Friday, is embracing whatever Monken has planned for him.
"It definitely means a lot. Like you said, it's really cool. Just the vision that he has for me," said Green. "I'm just, especially my rookie year, I'm just here to help the team win. No matter what I have to do, I'm blessed to have this opportunity and blessed to have them draft me because not a lot of people get that opportunity. So if it's just running somebody over to get that touchdown, I'm going to run somebody over."
Green scored 35 rushing touchdowns during his five-year college career, between stops at Boise State (3 years) and Arkansas (2 years). His elite running ability is an elite trait that Berry and company believed was worth using a day three pick to acquire.
Monken has specifically mentioned short yardage and goal line situations as potential opportunities to get Green on the field, but he's also not getting too far ahead of himself. He wants Green to learn the playbook and improve as a quarterback before throwing other things at him.
"Probably too early to tell that," Monken mentioned on Friday. "But I could say that anybody with that kind of athleticism, I think, should he progress in certain areas of his game, I think there would be a possibility of him, whether it's short yardage, once you get in the low red zone, maybe some third down stuff that we could utilize."
Time will tell what Monken has planned for Green in his new look offense. In the meantime, Green has plenty on his plate already and plans on asking lots of questions of the other QBs he shares a room with along the way.
"They have experience in the league and having high success at a high level. So I'm just the young pup," said Green. "I feel like a freshman again and just trying to take everything in and learn at a steep curve. I'm going to probably get on their nerves and ask a lot of questions, but that's okay."
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