BEREA, Ohio – The Browns quarterbacks room at the team’s training facility in Berea has a little of everything. There’s the rising star (Baker Mayfield), the experienced veteran (Drew Stanton), the rookie (David Blough) and the guy searching for a role (Garrett Gilbert).

Ryan Lindley, the team’s QB coach, recently provided a glimpse into how the room operates. Here are three things we learned:

1. Mayfield crashes other meetings

Browns wide receivers coach Adam Henry noted last week how Mayfield is often in the wide receivers room, writing on the whiteboard. Lindley said it’s something he promotes.

“Obviously, we get together as an offense first, fully, and we’ll install or we’ll put in whatever we’re doing, making changes. And after that I kind of give those guys, it’s like a joke, half coaching, half bathroom break. I say, ‘Hey, 15, if you need to go talk to the running backs about something, let’s go do that. We’ll all go as a group as quarterbacks to the tight end room, go to the offensive line room if it’s a protection thing.

“I think it’s great because at the end of the day, the biggest thing in my eyes is we can sit up in our staff meeting all day and find out 80 different ways to do it. It’s whatever clicks with Baker, with JC Tretter, with Nick Chubb, with Odell and Jarvis, with David Njoku. It’s those guys that have to execute it. So if there’s something we teach and we all get on the same page, and there’s something they want to spin off, then we should collaborate on that.”

2. Gilbert is more than meets the eye

Mayfield’s fellow Lake Travis High School alum has only played in one NFL game, but he has been with six teams since being a sixth-round draft pick in 2014. That experience has value for Mayfield.

And Gilbert’s ability to quickly grasp the Browns’ offense during training camp has impressed Lindley. As has his ability to coach guys on the field the way Stanton does.

“The fact that Garrett has been able to do that, it is almost misleading because his years of service are technical low, but he has bounced around the league and has been in a ton of systems,” Lindley said. “We both spent time in New England. We kind of bounce stuff off that. I try to compare our system to theirs, which has some similarities. He is incredible right now. He is almost at a mastery level. It is just really impressive. I am very fortunate to have an extremely sharp room in there that is picking up on things quickly.”

“The biggest thing I harp on with him is just he has the skill set. He is smart enough, can see things and he understands it. The biggest thing with him at this point now is to have the confidence to go out there and execute it. He has showed that since he has been here. It has been impressive, and I hope that he continues to grow.”

3. The Lake Travis hype is thick

Much has been written about how Lake Travis produced both Mayfield and Gilbert. You’re not the only one who keeps hearing about it.

“The running joke is that even David Blough is a Lake Travis guy. Anybody who has ever came out of Texas is a Lake Travis guy,” Lindley said. “Obviously, it is a historic program. We joke about it now. It is fun for them because you have two of the better guys that have played at that school at quarterback, and they get to be together on the professional stage. That is a special thing. I got to do that myself with a guy who was my center in high school. He was on the Arizona Cardinals practice squad for a little bit. That was a special time for both of us. I am sure they are really enjoying that, and obviously, me and Drew try to rip them about Texas football every once in a while, too.”