Trevor Sikkema at PFF:<\/a><\/p>\nPavia is the kind of player you wish could just play college ball forever. He\u2019s the underdog everyone tunes in to see topple giants when his team has no business doing so. But when it comes to his pro projection, he\u2019ll likely be viewed as a big underdog once again.<\/p>\n
His smaller size, under 5-foot-10, is almost nonexistent in the NFL outside of Kyler Murray and Bryce Young \u2014 but he isn\u2019t the runner Murray is and isn\u2019t the passer Bryce was at Alabama. What he does have going for him is experience as an RPO and option quarterback with a \u201cnever-say-die\u201d ball-carrier mentality.<\/p>\n
He has improved as a passer over the past two seasons and specifically loves to give his receivers a chance outside the numbers against man coverage. He has decent zip on shorter passes but lacks the arm talent for a deep passing game. He also naturally struggles to see over the line of scrimmage, though his numbers over the middle of the field aren\u2019t bad. He has very high passing grades on designed rollouts, though true scramble-drill plays aren\u2019t as successful. He has a bit of a looping throwing motion, but his footwork is strong and consistent.<\/p>\n
Fit with the Browns<\/p>\n
There are aspects of Pavia\u2019s game, and Pavia himself, that will sound very familiar to Browns fans.<\/p>\n
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Pavia had the moxy to propel Vanderbilt into a winning program in his two years with the Commodores, no small feat for a program that has been the SEC\u2019s favorite homecoming opponent for decades. People doubted him, and he proved them wrong.<\/p>\n
If Pavia can do that at Vanderbilt, then the same attitude and desire to never back down from a challenge would play well in Cleveland. Just as it did with Baker Mayfield from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Pavia\u2019s size is a major red flag, however, as is the fact that he is being mentored by Johnny Manziel, who spun his own particular brand of magic in Cleveland from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n
Pick whichever one you want, but this is very much a case of \u201cbeen there, done that\u201d regarding Pavia and the Browns. Not sure anyone has the stomach to sign up for it again.<\/p>\n
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Browns Player Drafting Could Impact<\/p>\n
If the Browns draft a quarterback, then Dillon Gabriel is likely the odd man out. (He may be anyway.) If the Browns draft a good quarterback, then Shedeur Sanders could be taking his show somewhere else this fall.<\/p>\n
Priority: It is high, but it would likely have to be \u201chigh on an inflatable swan in a pool\u201d level for the Browns to bring Pavia to town.<\/p>\n
What are your thoughts on Diego Pavia? Should the Browns take a gamble on him? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns have followed a familiar script over the years when it comes to their quarterback room.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1842,1476,54,22832,7491,1033,7,13456,4827,6,15,23220,1257,41317,6746,17,582,7205],"class_list":{"0":"post-849211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-baker-mayfield","9":"tag-bryce-young","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-completion-percentage","12":"tag-diego-pavia","13":"tag-dillon-gabriel","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-johnny-manziel","16":"tag-kyler-murray","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-passing-touchdowns","20":"tag-quarterback","21":"tag-quarterback-rating","22":"tag-rushing-yards","23":"tag-shedeur-sanders","24":"tag-the-browns","25":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116335156167496088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}