Browns sign Josh Rosen

     The Cleveland Browns signed an interesting player on Thursday when the team signed Josh Rosen after the former first-round pick tried out in front of the brass at Berea earlier in the day.

Rosen was part of the 2018 quarterback crop and was the fourth quarterback taken, tenth overall, by the Arizona Cardinals behind Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, and Josh Allen.

Rosen would start thirteen games for the Cardinals as a rookie, throwing eleven touchdowns and fourteen interceptions as the Cardinals finished 3-13, fired coach Steve Wilks after his first season, own the first pick in the 2019 draft, and hire Kliff Kingsbury as their new head coach.

Kingsbury would install an entirely new offensive system and with the intention of drafting Kyler Murray of Oklahoma with the top overall selection, the Cardinals decided to trade Rosen to Miami for the Dolphins 2019 second-rounder and a fifth-round pick in 2020.

Rosen would play in six games for the Dolphins, starting three and losing all three starts after throwing only one touchdown with five interceptions.

Rosen made four appearances for the Falcons last season in garbage time, throwing two interceptions among eleven passes.

I liked Rosen when he declared for the draft in 2018 and had him as my third-rated QB behind Darnold and Allen because I really liked his arm and how he threw the football but I did have questions about a perceived lack of love for football and a history of concussions at UCLA.

I'm not sure that Rosen's style suits what the Browns may want to run but Cleveland needed to have the fourth arm in camp and a veteran to perhaps be the third quarterback when the inevitable DeShaun Watson suspension is announced and maybe Rosen could have a small edge over Joshua Dobbs in the event that Jacoby Brissett would be injured but that would be an absolutely disastrous situation.

In best case scenario, Rosen comes into camp, serves as a backup quarterback, does so in a team-first manner, and maybe places himself into consideration for a team's second-string slot in 2023.

Still, it's nothing to get excited about in signing Rosen but I'm also intrigued when young quarterbacks that have been given no support by a bad team and flame out receive chances with other teams because one wonders if the player was poorly evaluated, was he ruined because of a rotten organization, and could the player be capable of revitalizing his career in a better situation?

And how often are the Cleveland Browns the better situation for players in the last twenty-plus years?