BEREA, Ohio — Freddie Kitchens gave Odell Beckham all the time he needed to wrap his brain around becoming a Cleveland Brown, and it seems to have paid off.

Beckham, who reported to Browns training camp on Wednesday, looked happy, fit and refreshed at his youth ProCamp Tuesday at Strongsville High, and has sounded great in his conversations with Kitchens since minicamp.

“I think his mindset’s pretty good,’’ Kitchens said at his press conference to kick off training camp Wednesday. “Yes, I’ve talked to him a few times, probably more than a few times but I never was worried about Odell. I know some people out there were. I wasn’t worried about him. Exactly what he told us he was going to do, he did. He got himself mentally and physically ready to go. And he’s mentally and physically ready to go. Hopefully he alluded to that fact also.’’

Kitchens knows he’s dealing with a different animal in Beckham, and he’s not pretending otherwise. Beckham is a superstar of LeBron James proportions, and must be handled as such. Not every NFL player attends the Met Gala in a kilt, graces the cover of GQ Magazine, zips around in a race car at the Monaco Grand Prix, and hangs out in Paris.

When asked about Beckham launching his own YouTube channel on Tuesday to invite fans along on his journey, Kitchens quipped, “Hell, hopefully he invites me on sometime.’’

Most significantly, he’s not going to try to censor the outspoken and emotional Beckham, or ask him to be anything he’s not.

“I like great players that want to be themselves,’’ said Kitchens. “He’s going to be allowed to be himself.’’

Aside from that, Beckham has all of the qualities Kitchens admires in a player, regardless of how he’ll be showcased in this aerial-palooza.

“I don’t know, all I’ve heard is we don’t have enough balls to go around," Kitchens said. “You know, Odell’s a great player. I like great players that want to win. I feel like he wants to win. … I like great players that can make plays with the ball in his hands. I like players that can get open. I like players that catch the ball and all of those things I think he does very well, so I don’t know the specific role yet. We will see what it turns into.

“But I know that that’s job as coaches to put him in position to make plays just like it is to put Duke (Johnson) in position to make plays and just like it is to create schemes and run game holes for Nick Chubb to run the ball in, and it’s our job to create opportunities for Baker to make plays and Callaway and Jarvis and all of these guys to make plays. That’s our job as coaches. I’d rather have that problem than not enough coaches.’’

Likewise, Kitchens knows he has players that like to mix it up on social media such Beckham and Baker Mayfield, and they’ll educate them on it to an extent. On Wednesday night, they planned a session on the ramifications of social media, and on their every move being captured on videotape while out and about.

“There’s definitely a responsibility on our end but what could we teach them that they don’t already know in that arena?'' he said. “We just have to educate them to make good decisions and if they’re willing to deal with those consequences, whether it be financially, friendship-wise or team-wise, they make that decision."

He said he wants his players to close ranks and block out the noise.

“We’ve got a bunch of guys here that are in it for the guys in that locker room and that’s the only thing they care about," he said. “That’s the only thing I want them to care about. I don’t want them caring about any outside influence at all, whether it’s what people say in the media, what people say on Twitter, what people are saying on Facebook and all of that kind of stuff. None of that matters, because they’re not here and they’re not going to walk out on the field on Sunday.’’

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