CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Stumbled upon late Friday night, this stat is either so obvious everyone knows it, or perhaps one of the great statistical discoveries I've ever encountered.

By 4 p.m. Saturday, NFL teams must make make their final cuts to pare their rosters to 53 players.

When that happens, one-quarter of NFL teams may find that their backup quarterbacks are former Browns.

That's eight of the other 31 teams (actually 25.8 percent of the NFL) putting guys who weren't good enough to cut it in Cleveland now one snap away from running their offense.

Is that a good stat?

Or did you know in your heart that the Browns were a breeding ground for not-quite-good-enough-yet-maybe-passable quarterbacks?

Consider ...

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DeShone Kizer started 15 games for the Browns last season. (Stacy Revere, Getty Images)

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DeShone Kizer in Green Bay

Kizer is locked in as the Packers' No. 2 behind Aaron Rodgers. Traded by the Browns in the offseason for safety Damarious Randall, Kizer beat out former backup Brett Hundley for the job. Green Bay then dealt Hundley to Seattle. So Kizer is the guy behind the guy.

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Cody Kessler started eight games for the Browns in 2016. (Hannah Foslien, Getty Images)

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Cody Kessler in Jacksonville

Dealt to the Jaguars in the offseason for a seventh-round pick, Kessler won the backup job behind Blake Bortles with a strong preseason. He was 36 of 46 for 332 yards, a touchdown and no interceptions in exhibition games and will open the year as the No. 2 for the team that reached the AFC Championship Game last year.

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Colt McCoy started 21 games for the Browns in 2010 and 2011. (Maddie Meyer, Getty Images)

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Colt McCoy in Washington

The Redskins like McCoy so much, they signed him to an extension this summer to keep him around as the backup in 2019. This season, he'll be the No. 2 behind Alex Smith.

McCoy started four games for the Redskins in 2014, but in the last three seasons has only played in two games as a backup. Yet he's clearly found a home in Washington.

Also, the No. 3 quarterback for the Redskins who is not expected to make it onto the roster and should be cut Saturday? Kevin Hogan, the one-game starter for the Browns last year.

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Josh McCown started 11 games for the Browns in 2015 and 2016. (Abbie Parr/Getty Images)

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Josh McCown in New York

The veteran is serving as the mentor for first-round draft pick and rookie starter Sam Darnold. With the trade of Teddy Bridgewater to New Orleans, McCown will also start the season next in line with the Jets if anything goes wrong with Darnold, the No. 3 pick in the draft.

The Jets were 5-8 in the 13 games McCown started last season.

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Brian Hoyer (right) started 16 games for the Browns in 2013 and 2014. (Maddie Meyer, Getty Images)

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Brian Hoyer in New England

Hoyer started six games in San Francisco last season, but when the 49ers traded for New England backup Jimmy Garoppolo, Hoyer was shipped to the Patriots as the new No. 2 to Tom Brady.

Rookie seventh-round pick Danny Etling is in camp with the Patriots, but the 32-year-old Hoyer is expected to hold onto the gig as Brady's backup.

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Brandon Weeden started 20 games for the Browns in 2012 and 2013. (Harry How, Getty Images)

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Brandon Weeden in Houston

Weeden went 1-0 as a starter for the Texans in 2015, but he didn't get into a game the last two years. Still, the Texans, after releasing him before the season in 2017, signed him back in March.

Now Weeden, who has a record of 6-19 as a starter, is the No. 2 to Deshaun Watson, the second-year quarterback who tore his ACL in the middle of last season.

That's either a major risk by the Texans, or a strong belief in Weeden as the backup.

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Brock Osweiler never played a game with the Browns, but he was in camp with them in 2017. (Kevin C. Cox, Getty Images)

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Brock Osweiler in Miami

Osweiler won the backup job in Miami. Of that there seems to be no doubt.

The Dolphins entered their final preseason game with Osweiler and David Fales battling to serve behind Ryan Tannehill. Osweiler went 16 of 25 for 147 yards and two scores, clearly outplaying Fales and seemingly winning the role.

Barring a surprise, he's a former Cleveland QB now in line as someone else's No. 2.

The question is whether he's really a former Browns quarterback.

Osweiler never took a snap for the Browns, never stood on their sideline during a regular season game. Famously acquired in March of 2017 after the Browns agreed to eat his $16 million salary and got a second-round pick from Houston for the trouble, he was dumped before the start of the 2017 season after looking less than average in the preseason.

So there's no Cleveland line on his six-year NFL statistical resume.

But you remember him, Browns fans. So I'm counting him.

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Robert Griffin III started five games for the Browns in 2016. (Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

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Robert Griffin III in Baltimore

This one's a stretch. The first six quarterbacks on this list are solidly set in backup jobs, and Osweiler is as well and counts as long as you consider him a former Brown.

RG3 is more unsettled, but he has looked good this preseason.

No one knows whether the Ravens are going to keep him after he completed 27 of 41 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns in the preseason, while also gaining 52 yards on 11 carries.

The Ravens have starting quarterback Joe Flacco, who is soon to be the past, and rookie Lamar Jackson, who is the future. Would keeping Griffin as a third quarterback make sense? Would letting him serve as the true backup, while Jackson watches and learns, be part of that?

Ravens writers are unsure. Griffin didn't play in Baltimore's fifth and final preseason game. That could be read as he was already set for the roster, he was held back as trade bait, or he was probably gone and the Ravens had seen enough.

Baltimore doesn't typically keep three quarterbacks. But working in Jackson may create an exception here. After not playing in 2017, Griffin may have shown enough to land on another roster as the No. 2 if Baltimore isn't the right fit.

Here's some advice, for the Ravens or another team looking at RG3.

If you're looking for a backup quarterback, former Browns are all the rage.

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So that's eight.

That list does not include Derek Anderson, who started 34 games for the Browns between 2006 and 2009 before settling in as the long-time backup to Cam Newton in Carolina. Anderson played that role the last seven seasons, but at 35 he's out of football right now and maybe done with his career.

However, the Carolina backup situation was uncertain enough in the preseason that some wondered if Anderson might get a call to come back to his old No. 2 role. It appears that won't happen ... but if it did, he could make nine.

That list also does not include Austin Davis, who started two games at quarterback for the Browns in 2015. He went to camp with Seattle with a chance to win the backup job to Russell Wilson. But he played poorly enough that Seattle traded for Brett Hundley, the former Packers backup, who was made available by the presence of Kizer.

If Davis had played better, and Anderson had been called back, that could have been 10.

And then there's that starting QB for Montreal in the Canadian Football League.

Maybe, if things go well, Johnny Manziel will one day add to the esteemed legacy of failed Browns starters finding backup jobs somewhere else.

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Johnny Manziel started eight games for the Browns in 2014 and 2015. Now in the CFL, he can aspire to become the next former Browns starting QB to land as an NFL backup. (Associated Press)