Johnny Manziel's No. 2 jersey has double meaning. Browns coach Mike Pettine said Hoyer is ''securely ahead'' in the competition to be Cleveland's starting quarterback this season, but his lead over Manziel isn't ''insurmountable.'' After the Browns ended their three-day mandatory minicamp Thursday, Pettine sized up the battle as a friendly fight that will heat up when the team opens training camp late in July. Pettine agrees with Browns general manager Ray Farmer's evaluation that Manziel, the wildly popular 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and first-round draft pick from Texas A&M, has some catching up to do. ''That will be part of our discussions as well as far as OK, here's the plan, here's a date that we want to go ahead and name him.'' During recent workouts open to the media, Manziel has shown some of the flashes that earned him the Johnny Football nickname in college.
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