CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Perhaps a trip across the pond will do Browns rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer some good.

He has a good chance of being announced as the starter Wednesday morning when Hue Jackson names his man for Sunday's Vikings game in London, a league source told cleveland.com.

Jackson stressed Monday that Kizer showed significant growth during Sunday's 12-9 overtime loss to the Titans before throwing the first of two back-to-back interceptions with 19 seconds left in the first half.

"Kizer did some really good things early,'' Jackson said. "He was very team-protecting with the football early in the game. Obviously, right before the half, it kind of came apart, threw the interception.''

Before that pick, on an overthrown pass to Rashard Higgins at the Titans' 7 with 19 seconds left in the half, Kizer had completed 9-of-11 attempts for 67 yards for a 92.0 rating. In the first quarter alone, he completed 6-of-6 attempts for 44 yards for a 97.2 mark.

It didn't unravel until the pick at the end of the half, his 10th of the season. He went 3-for-7 for 47 yards on the drive, including the way overthrown pass to an open Higgins.

"We had a chance to score points,'' said Jackson. "Let's be honest, we all saw it - the guy was open. He missed him. That's been our issue. It is not about throwing the ball short, here, there, wherever. It's me throwing the ball to you, and he missed it. We can't sugarcoat that."

Jackson gave him a chance to redeem himself in the second half, but he was picked off again by safety Kevin Byard on his fourth play of the opening drive, when Byard anticipated Kizer's read and followed the ball.

"You see a very good play from a wise safety who comes off of the underneath route,'' Kizer said. "As my vision goes away from him, he ends up falling under the second layer of the route and makes a good play on the ball."

That second pick was Kizer's league-leading 11th of the season, and earned him a trip to the sidelines in favor of Cody Kessler.

Kessler, starting at his 1-yard line, put a field goal on the board on his first drive to tie it 6-6, but was also picked off by Byard on a deep ball over the middle for Davi d Njoku in the fourth quarter. Still, he took the Titans to overtime, even without left tackle Joe Thomas, who suffered his torn triceps tendon in the third quarter.

A drop by Kenny Britt on a deep ball at the Titans' 30 on the opening drive of overtime took the Browns out of field goal range, and Kessler went three-and-out on his second and last chance in the extra session before the Titans won it on a 47-yard field goal.

After the game, Jackson sounded like he might be leaning towards Kessler, but by Monday, he seemed to be leaning towards going back to Kizer (12-of-20 attempts, 114 yards, two INTs, 36.2 rating) and giving him another chance.

Kizer, who's been benched for performance three times, heads into the Vikings game last in the NFL with a 47.8 rating and last in completion percentage at 52.0. But the fact remains that the Browns still need to know what they have in him heading into the big QB-rich 2018 draft.

"It's sometimes a deal between DeShone and DeShone,'' said Jackson. "He has to work through this and he is, just like I watched how hard he worked last week to put himself in position to go out there and start the game and play early. He just has to make that next jump and take that next step. How fast can we get him there and how fast can he get himself there? I don't know that at this time."

The Vikings game in London appears to be as good a time as any to try to find out.