BEREA, Ohio -- That's it, I'm off the DeShone Kizer bandwagon, momentarily.

He pushed me off, convincingly, not by playing poorly, but by speaking authoritatively.

Rarely will you hear a more persuasive case for a quarterback watching and learning than the one the Browns' second-round draft choice laid out Wednesday. Watch Kizer take the field with the first team during minicamp, and examine the other alternatives in Cody Kessler and Brock Osweiler, and you could easily talk yourself into Kizer taking the first snap in the opener on Sept. 10.

But no. DeShone said no.

He's so far away from talking a timetable to play, he must not own a watch or a dining room.

"There's no reason to even try to feel it," Kizer said about any sense he may have for when he thinks he'll be ready to play NFL football, "and I don't know. That's Coach Jackson's call.''

Kizer, somehow, could smartly explain why he's confused. He spelled it out during interviews before the second day of minicamp, and Mary Kay Cabot chronicled it all.

That's a good sign. It's part of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, an aspect of social psychology that actually deals with the inverse, basically that sometimes people are too stupid to comprehend their own stupidity.

As study co-author David Dunning explains, "the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task -- and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at that task."

For instance, you currently are reading the finest sports article in the history of the written word.

Being smart enough to understand that you might not understand something? That's a plus. That's where Kizer is right now. Not to pile on, but it's the opposite of Brock Osweiler and the "proof is in the film," though Osweiler did on Wednesday finally cop to the idea he could have played better a year ago.

But we're dealing with Kizer now. He may have been pushed there by Browns head coach Hue Jackson, but he's there.

"Hopefully it's conversations we've had," Jackson said after Wednesday's practice. "We didn't draft him to say 'You've got to do this right now.' We drafted him to develop him.

"Develop the talent and see if he could get there, because we already have some capable guys here in Brock and Cody, and see if he could compete with those guys.

"Obviously, there's some things he does really well, and there's some things he's still a young quarterback and he's learning. But he's emerging, I do believe that."

Kizer has taken of lot of first-team reps, because Jackson is smart enough to know that if he's going to get a sense of Kizer, he needs to see him with the Browns' best talent and against the Browns' best talent. Why not?

But "why not?" may not cut it during the season. That's what I've always figured with young quarterbacks and rebuilding teams. It's why I pushed Jackson a year ago when he benched Kessler, then a rookie, in favor of veteran Josh McCown in the second half of a loss at Baltimore.

The Browns lost that game anyway. McCown is now a New York Jet, while Kessler is the presumptive No. 1 quarterback here. The experience Kessler would have gained from trying to lead a second-half comeback on the road in primetime would have made him, presumably, at least a smidge better right now. He'd at least be more experienced. So there was no point to that move.

But the discussion of when or whether to start Kizer is different. What the Browns should do in 2017 as they build for the future is whatever Jackson thinks will make Kizer the best possible quarterback in 2018 and 2019 and 2020.

Part of how Jackson views that will be based on how Kizer views it. If the coach has a confident young quarterback who also possess a patently realistic idea of his future, that helps.

"To sit here and say that a month's worth of learning that offense and being out here is enough to be a starter would be really naive of me," Kizer said.

Pretty smart. Pretty mature. Pretty self-aware.

Makes you want to go ahead and start him soon because he seems able to handle it. Wait, no, the opposite of that.

I may be too stupid to figure this out. Kizer won't be.