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Just before the Browns started training camp, wide receiver Jerry Jeudy found himself going viral on social media for something he didn't do. somethingsdifferent.biz

A video showing Jeudy putting up four fingers was portrayed as him answering a question about who he thinks should be the team's quarterback by favoring Deshaun Watson, but, as noted at the time, the video was clearly edited and Jeudy responded by writing that he doesn't "speak on decisions that aren't mine to make."

Jeudy addressed the video again at a Thursday press conference and said that whoever made the video edited out a section including his daughter. Jeudy said he held up the four fingers to answer a question during a livestream about how old his daughter is and that the video's editing "made it into something" it wasn't.

"I’ve been in the league for seven years. At least five or six of those years, there’s always been a quarterback competition within those years," Jeudy said. "I think I was mature enough, wise enough to not answer questions like that. For anyone to believe I would answer like that on social media is kinda wild. You gotta understand this is what we in and understand how everybody viewing the quarterback competition in this room, so every little thing’s going to try to turn it into that. . . . I don’t even answer quarterback questions in here, why would I answer quarterback questions on TikTok?"

Jeudy said he spoke to Watson and Shedeur Sanders directly to tell them he wasn't discussing their competition and that the entire episode reinforced his feeling that "nothing's real" on social media. There are no shortage of examples inside and outside of football to back up that view and there will inevitably be more of them despite admonitions from Jeudy or anyone else to treat it with skepticism.

Browns head coach Todd Monken opened a Wednesday press conference by responding to a question about the team's plans for their starting quarterback in their first two preseason games.

Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network reported on Tuesday that Monken told him either Deshaun Watson or Shedeur Sanders would start the preseason opener against the Bears on August 15 and that the other one would start against the Bills on August 22. On Wednesday, Monken said that was not an entirely accurate representation of the team's plans at this point.

"Basically talked about that the quarterbacks are gonna play in the preseason," Monken said. "Obviously if it’s still a competition at that time, why wouldn’t you start one and start the other and then we would go from there. That was really what the conversation was. He wasn’t wrong in what we talked about, which you’ve all known that they’re gonna play in the preseason. Someone has to go out there for the first snap thus they would be the one that starts. At this point we’re so far from that, that it’s not really as important as what it got made out to be."

Monken said that Watson and Sanders will continue rotating with the first team as long as the competition continues and gave no indication that there's a specific date he has in mind to make a decision on a starter. It seems likely that both Watson and Sanders will wind up starting a preseason game if that continues for a few more weeks, but it's not the sure thing it may have seemed on Tuesday.