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"He's not walking in the building with an entourage, he's walking in as a teammate, and I think when you've talked to the people at Texas A that have been around him before, once he's inside the locker room, he's one of the most well liked guys on the team.''Pettine ticked off half a dozen other reasons he's excited about his new rookie."He's tough, he's passionate, he's a gym rat, he loves football, he can process information very quickly, he can improvise and make plays with his feet, and I think that's important in today's game,'' said Pettine.It helps that offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan has already been down this road once before with a superstar dual threat rookie in Robert Griffin III."It made this decision an easy one,'' said Pettine.Browns general manager Ray Farmer admitted that Manziel came onto the radar screen "I'd probably say during the middle of the draft the opportunity presented itself, we took those liberties.''As for the others available at the time, such as Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater and Fresno State's Derek Carr, Farmer declined to go there.
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