Editor's note: Tony Grossi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN 850 WKNR.

Takeaways from the Senior Bowl discussion …

1. Mayfield Mania: Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield arrived at Senior Bowl week in Mobile, AL, fashionably late and may sneak out early without participating in the game on Saturday. Unless he stays.

Mayfield’s intentions have been the subject of conflicting reports. Either the Oklahoma quarterback will 1. Return home to be with his mom, who reportedly had an undisclosed health issue, 2. Stay for the game as a sideline observer, or 3. Actually participate in the game.

In interviews during the week, Mayfield sought to dispel comparisons to Johnny Manziel, the erstwhile college QB sensation whose NFL career with the Browns flamed out in two years because of alcohol and substance abuse issues. But aside from those issues, comparisons of Mayfield to Manziel are unavoidable and reasonably appropriate.

Both were scintillating college players with dynamic personalities and incredible competitiveness. Both won the Heisman and lifted their respective football programs into the national limelight. Both were highly accurate passers and charismatic leaders. Both humbled college football coaching legends in epic upsets – Manziel beat Alabama’s Nick Saban, and Mayfield defeated Ohio State’s Urban Meyer.

Most significantly, both are undersized for the NFL game. Mayfield checked in at the Senior Bowl at 6 feet, 3/8 inch and 216 pounds. Manziel measured at the 2014 NFL Combine at 5-11 ¾ and 207.

And both demonstrated immaturity on the field that raised questions about character and compromised their ability to be taken seriously as leaders in the professional phase of their careers.

Manziel was noted for flashing his trademark money sign, which only infuriated opponents and motivated them when he reached the NFL. Manziel also flipped the bird to the Washington Redskins sideline in a 2014 preseason game.

Mayfield fueled controversy in the 2017 college season when he planted the giant OU flag inside the Buckeyes’ logo at mid-field of Ohio Stadium after Oklahoma’s 31-16 upset in September. Then in November, television cameras captured Mayfield taunting the Kansas bench by grabbing his crotch and mouthing an expletive during a rout of the Jayhawks.

Staunch advocates of Mayfield argue that comparisons to Manziel are “lazy analysis.” They say Mayfield should get the benefit of the doubt and be compared to Drew Brees and Russell Wilson. Fat chance.

Those future NFL superstars had impeccable character in college while driven with the same chip-on-the-shoulder mentality spawned by the stigma of their height in a big man’s game.

To me, Mayfield looks, sounds, acts and plays like the reincarnation of Manziel – notwithstanding Manziel’s substance abuse issues.

2. Dorsey’s turnabout: One of the subtle criticisms of Browns GM John Dorsey in Kansas City was his sometimes-awkward candor in media interviews. Dorsey was viewed as “rough around the edges” for making an occasional blunt statement unbecoming of the office of NFL general manager, whose protocol is to say nothing of substance.

So when Dorsey stated in his first Cleveland radio interview in December on 850 WKNR that the Sashi Brown regime preceding him “didn't get real players," the public and media backlash was swift.

The next day, Dorsey did a 180, clammed up and confessed on another radio station, “I’m not a wordsmith.”

And since then, Dorsey has spouted nothing but clichés, bromides and uncontroversial blustering in discussing Browns matters.

The surest sign of media training came at the Senior Bowl when Dorsey led reporters to believe that “four or five” quarterbacks were in discussion for the Browns’ No. 1 draft pick, and that Mayfield was one of them.

Given Cleveland’s traumatic experience with Manziel, it is dubious to consider Mayfield as a viable candidate for the Browns’ No. 4 overall pick, much less at No. 1.

To think that the Browns would pass on Carson Wentz in 2016 and Deshaun Watson in 2017, and then choose the multi-flawed Mayfield in 2018 to be the face of the franchise is hard to fathom.

Yet Dorsey was able to pull off the storyline, casting doubt on the Browns’ true intentions. Well done.