"I don't play this game to sit on the bench, so now it's about accepting this as a challenge and doing whatever I can to get back out there and once again be the best quarterback and the best version of myself I can be when I do get back out there," Kizer told reporters, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "If another opportunity comes up to me to step back out on that field, I have to be the best version of myself. Now, it is just going to take a little longer before I get back out there."