The Cleveland Browns ended their long quarterback nightmare in 2018 when the team made Baker Mayfield the No. 1 overall selection in the 2018 NFL Draft.
That night concluded the search for a true franchise quarterback that began on November 8, 1993 - the day that the Browns released Bernie Kosar.
The fact that the Browns went almost 25 years without a true franchise-level quarterback helps explain, at least in part, why NFL.com’s Ali Bhanpuri selected Kosar as the franchise quarterback for the Browns.
Bhanpuri has been going through the league, division by division, in an attempt to determine the franchise quarterback for each of the league’s 32 teams.