New Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey is apparently a huge fan of Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield. We know this since Dorsey literally gave voice to it.

“There are some positive and legitimate prospects here that would make any Browns fan happy if we went in that direction,” Dorsey said Tuesday on the club’s in-house radio show Cleveland Browns Daily on WKNR 850 via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com.

He's speaking — albeit indirectly — about Baker Mayfield, a gunslinger John Dorsey told Peter King of MMQB that he's watched six times and admitted he likes the Heisman Trophy winner.

“I want to be able to project and articulate my opinion when the time comes and it matters,” Dorsey said. “I saw [Mayfield] at Kansas this year, in the OU-Kansas game. You’re darn right he’s a good quarterback, no matter how tall he is. Some would say he’s too short, but I would ask you: How tall is Russell Wilson? How tall is Chase Daniel?”

What does this mean for DeShone Kizer?

“He played big-time football,” Dorsey said of Kizer. “He had the physical skill set you could see could transfer into the National Football League. Now the one thing people don’t realize how young he is (21). He was very young coming into the draft process. [But] he had a degree of maturity about his person that a normal 20, 21-year old person did not have.

“I thought he handled himself very well when we brought him in. When I was in Kansas City, we brought in seven quarterbacks, and he did a wonderful job answering the questions. When they actually sat him down and began to do the terminology, the technical aspects of football, the coaching staff walked away pretty impressed with him.”

In my opinion, had the Browns allowed Kizer to fully play through his growing pains this season, instead of benching him at every turn, the franchise would have a far better idea of what kind of quarterback he is (or isn't).