Johnny Manziel takes aim at former teammate over treatment with Browns

Johnny Manziel has been on a media tour discussing his playing career recently, including an a multi-million dollar deal his father negotiated for him to stay at Texas A&M. 

Manziel, the 2012 Heisman winner and former first round pick that pundit Skip Bayless said would 'be bigger than LeBron James was beaten out by former Michigan State quarterback Brian Hoyer for the Cleveland Browns' starting job later that fall. 

Now, Manziel is exposing Hoyer's alleged mistreatment in Cleveland's QB room, nearly ten years after the former college star's rookie year. 

Speaking to Shannon Sharpe on Sharpe's podcast "Club Shay Shay," Manziel recounted his time in Cleveland, which he says included being ignored by Hoyer in the Browns' QB room. 

“My QB room was not a home to me because of Brian Hoyer,” Manziel said. 

“Brian Hoyer had been waiting on an opportunity to be able to go provide for his family, get an opportunity and he saw how much of an upper hand he had on me. And he didn’t hold back when it came to that.”

Hoyer was not selected in the 2009 NFL Draft out of Michigan State and was signed by the Patriots after the draft. He later signed a two-year deal with coach Mike Pettine and the Browns in 2013 before securing the starting job the next season. 

Manziel intimated that Hoyer was impatient with him and made him feel wrong for asking questions.

“There was instances in the QB room early on when I would ask the same question a couple times and he would be at the head of the table and go ‘again, we’re doing this again?’ I don’t have a bad word to say about Brian Hoyer. That is just fact about what happened in the room.”

Manziel played just two seasons in the NFL, both of them with the Browns. He threw for a career-high 1,500 yards in 2015, the same year Hoyer signed a two-year, $10.5 million deal with the Houston Texans.