CLEVELAND, Ohio - Encyclopedia Brown is a boy detective who solves mysteries. He's investigating "The Case of the Untraded Quarterback."
Encyclopedia was monitoring Twitter on Tuesday when he saw that the Cleveland Browns had failed to make a trade for Cincinnati backup quarterback AJ McCarron.
"Why would the Browns trade a second-rounder and third-rounder for an older version of Cody Kessler?" asked his father, Chief Brown, who was the chief of police in town. "I thought your cousin Sashi loved draft picks."
"He does," said Encyclopedia. "This certainly is a pickle. Why would the Browns trade for an average backup veteran quarterback who isn't likely to be a long-term answer, when the best possible result is winning just enough games the rest of this year to make it harder to get a quarterback in the 2018 draft?