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Johnny Manziel experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows in football.
The winner of the 2012 Heisman Trophy award at Texas A&M, Manziel was a first-round draft choice of the Cleveland Browns in 2014. That said, Manziel only made eight starts in the NFL, and the Browns released him following his second season (2015); he never appeared in an NFL game thereafter. It has been documented that Manziel struggled with drugs, alcohol and mental health.
On Wednesday’s edition of “Undisputed,” Manziel pinpointed the lowest point of his football career.
“I went from a person in college that never shied away from the moment, never backed down from getting an opportunity to walk into the biggest, baddest, best stage ever and then walking into that stadium in Cleveland to start that first game was like the first time I had really questioned my ability in a stadium in front of people,” Manziel told Skip Bayless. “And when you question your ability and yourself, I think it oozes out into your play on the field.
“A low point is walking out of that stadium that day and not scoring a single point and probably for the first time maybe ever in my entire football career, we don’t even get a chance to kick a field goal … the personal side of things when you start to question your ability and really ‘Is this what I’m meant to do? Is this what my calling is? Am I as good as what I remember I am type of thing?'”
The game Manziel referenced came in Week 15 of the 2014 season, a contest which saw Cleveland get silenced by the AFC North-rival Cincinnati Bengals on its home turf, 30-0. Manziel threw for just 80 yards, while throwing two interceptions and posting a 27.3 passer rating. In his rookie season, he made seven appearances, two of them being starts, and finished with just 175 passing yards.
While Manziel made six starts and had his moments in 2015, he was unable to lock down Cleveland’s full-time quarterback gig and was released after the season. The Browns had traded for…
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