Cleveland Browns use a sixth-round pick to select Arkansas QB Taylen Green, officially rounding out the team's quarterback room. His skillset could become a real weapon for Todd Monken to deploy.
It was only a matter of time until the Cleveland Browns added a fourth quarterback to their roster. The NFL Draft always felt like a reasonable place for them to find one.
That's exactly where Executive Vice President of Football Operations, Andrew Berry turned when the Browns were on the clock with the first pick of the sixth round on Saturday. Berry used the 182nd to select freakishly athletic Arkansas QB Taylen Green.
There's one major reason why Green made sense for Cleveland on the draft's final day.
"I just think at that point in the draft ... you're looking for players that have traits, elite traits, which he has," head coach Todd Monken explained. "Something you think you can work with and give yourself a chance to develop. You hear some great things from not only when he was at Boise, Arkansas, in terms of how he's wired. And so we're just looking forward to get to work with him."
Green's elite traits are hard to miss. At 6-foot-5, he ran the second-fastest forty time by a quarterback since 2003 at the NFL Combine (4.36 seconds). That athleticism was something that had some teams considering moving him to tight end or wide receiver had they drafted him.
Berry made it clear, however, that in Cleveland, Green is a quarterback and that barring something unforeseen, he's the final piece of their QB class for 2026.
"The current plan is that we would roll with those four," he said. "I can't predict if something else comes up. So yes, that would be the intention.”
Deniable as his athletic ability is, his play from the pocket needs some refining. Green tends to put the ball in harm's way too much, evidenced by the 35 interceptions he threw across four seasons during stints with Boise State and Arkansas.
By Day 3 of the NFL Draft, the crop of remaining quarterback prospects all come with their warts. That goes for any position, really. The idea, though, is that you throw some darts at players with those elite traits and hope some stick.
Not only that, but for a team still searching for its franchise quarterback, it never hurts to try.
"It’s the most important position in sports," Berry said. "We’ll make a bet or acquire a player that we like if it’s the right cost. With Taylen specifically, very mature young man, really strong makeup, and he has rare physical gifts. He has size, he has elite speed, he has a big arm. He’s going to need some polish with his game, but he has the work ethic and he has the acumen to do so."
Meanwhile, as he works behind the scenes to improve as a quarterback, there's nothing prohibiting Monken from trying to utilize his skillset to help the offense. It's something Berry is keeping an open mind about.
"Obviously his gift as a ball carrier and a runner is pretty unique," said the Browns GM. "I guess it really has to go with the offensive vision. And I think that that's something that over the course of the spring and into training camp, as our offensive staff works with this group of players, we'll define the identity and figure out how much of that we could incorporate."
Monken has emphasized wanting to lean into his players' strengths and scoring by any means necessary. That opens up a wealth of possibilities to deploy his newest weapon.
"Certainly, when you have a player with those kind of traits, when can you utilize those," said Monken. "Short yardage, goal line, four-minute, critical times when you've got to be able to run the ball and the defense is going to have an extra element in the box, having an athletic quarterback can be critical to having success."
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