CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Know your hilarious friend, the one who's always laughing and cracking jokes, the guy you invite to watch the game because he knows what's up and he'll make sure everyone has a good time?

That guy plays for the Browns now.

Tyvis Powell loves everything, but there are few things he loves as much as he loves the Browns. One of the most infectious personalities I've ever met in sports is the newest member of the Cleveland secondary, and, by the way, I think he can play.

Released by Seattle at the end of his rookie year after starting for three seasons at Ohio State, Powell now plays for the team that every year he used to predict would go 16-0.

Again, he really loves the Browns.

"Don't get me wrong," Sean Williams, the Bedford High School football coach and Powell's mentor, said Monday, "he loved Seattle. But he was so mad, I think hurt, when the Browns didn't pick him up in the sixth or seventh round, now to come back home and be part of fixing and repairing this whole thing, you can believe how excited he is."

If Powell can't play he won't stay, but at the NFL combine in 2016, Powell tested well and proved to be more athletic than I realized. At Ohio State's Pro Day, to my eye, he looked as fluid as future first-rounder Eli Apple. And then he went undrafted.

Teams called to express free agent interest and he picked Seattle, hoping to be mentored by Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas. He was, with the Seahawks even moving the 6-foot-3 lifetime safety to corner, though he only saw game action on special teams. But Seattle, apparently, got infected by Powell as well. Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times called Powell, "a player many in the front office fell in love with the day he signed."

A numbers crunch led to his release in January. No waiver claims are announced during the playoffs, but how did the Browns get him? Because they were the worst team in the league. The first team with a shot took him. So the NFL thinks Powell can play.

He's genuinely funny (see the video at the top from when he picked off roommate Cardale Jones in Ohio State's spring football game), but he's not some guy just coming in to cut up the locker room. Powell was a captain his final season at Ohio State, a three-year starter who earned his job as a redshirt freshman by impressing Urban Meyer in the off-season. Safeties coach Chris Ash thought Powell a bit of a clown when he was hired after the 2013 season, but he came to know otherwise.

"Until you really get to know Tyvis, that's the impression you get," Ash said in 2015. "Because he is very intelligent, he's very witty and he makes good jokes. Now that I know him, Tyvis is a very serious dude. He's a pretty driven, highly motivated guy."

Williams, who has talked to Powell basically every day since he left high school, said Powell is so excited about the move that he is insisting on living in Cleveland. No Bedford, no other suburbs.

"I want to see my work," Powell told Williams. "I want to be able to walk to the stadium."

"You practice in Berea," Williams told him.

"I don't care," Powell said.

They've been working out together for weeks to prepare for what's next.

"It's been high school all over again," Williams said.

So he's invested in all of this, in the game, in the community, in the team he's always loved. Powell's arrival was announced on the same day Browns tackle Joe Thomas tweeted of Justin Gilbert after the former Browns first-rounder was released by Pittsburgh, "If you don't like football, it doesn't matter how talented you are, your star will burn out quick.''

Consider Powell the anti-Gilbert.

Powell loves football. He loves Cleveland. He loves the Browns. He loves everything.

"When people in Cleveland get to know him, they're going to love him," Williams said. "You need that enthusiasm. You need people who want to be here, who want to play for the Browns, who want to see Cleveland do well."

Powell won't be the first Browns fan to slip on the orange and brown. The Browns want a locker room full of guys who care. But it will be hard to find anyone who cares more about this. Cares about football, about Cleveland, about the Browns, about everything.

You know the type. Now one of those guys is on your team.