The Sports Xchange

Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine said there is no quarterback competition in training camp this summer.

Josh McCown is designated the starter well ahead of Johnny Manziel and Connor Shaw.

“What has helped this year is Josh knowing he is firmly the No. 1,” Pettine told The MMQB. “It’s unfair to look back to a year ago and say, well, Brian Hoyer obviously didn’t help Johnny. They were in a competition. The circumstances are different this year. Josh is secure in his job, but at the same time he can help mentor those other guys in the room.”

McCown, a 12-year veteran, signed with the Browns in February after he was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. McCown signed with Tampa Bay in 2014 with the expectation from the franchise that he would start and help stabilize a young offense. But the 36-year-old McCown was injured and ineffective, and the Buccaneers landed the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 draft.

Knowing a new franchise quarterback would be added — the Buccaneers drafted Florida State’s Jameis Winston over Oregon’s Marcus Mariota — McCown was released.

The Browns have tempered expectations for 2014 first-round pick Manziel, who spent three months in a treatment facility in the offseason.