 CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns quarterbacks coach Dowell Loggains said in a radio interview Thursday that a text from Johnny Manziel during the draft helped inspire owner Jimmy Haslam to trade up for him. MORE: Manziel texted Browns night of NFL draft 
 
 Want to buy a jersey for cornerback Justin Gilbert, the No. As the draft grew closer, Loggains had an even stronger feeling Johnny Football would be sitting across from him every day in his meeting room. A few people who want their names personalized – their name with No. Once we finished all of our evaluations, it was Johnny's name at the top of the list and there was everyone else, so I knew we needed a quarterback and we were very high on Johnny.'' 22, they pulled off the trade with Philadelphia to select the former Heisman Trophy winner, sending a third-round pick to the Eagles. That seems like an impossible task. We're trading up to go get this guy.''' We knew we had to get in front of the Chiefs (at No. "I knew definitely that Johnny was someone that was very high on our board and someone that was in our discussions the weeks leading up to the draft,'' said Loggains. Head coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer have said before and after the draft that they would be fine with having a rookie quarterback, even one as touted as Manziel, wait to play – and they might even prefer it. But that's from a PR perspective, Edwards said. Instead, he wanted to convey how excited everyone in the organization was -- all the way to the top -- that Manziel was so eager to come here. I'm apprehensive, but I'm a Browns fan, and I always will be.
– Johnny Manziel, who in 2012 became the first freshman to earn the Heisman Trophy, didn't want to wait around during the NFL draft. So he texted the Cleveland Browns' quarterbacks coach, Dowell Loggains, asking him to "hurry up and draft me because I want to be there. I want to wreck this league together." Loggains told the story this week on Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly in Arkansas, cleveland.com reports. "When I got that text, I forwarded it to the owner and to the head coach," Loggains said. "I'm like, 'this guy wants to be here.'" That's when owner Jimmy Haslam "said, 'Pull the trigger. We're trading up to go get this guy.''' The team did so, trading up to No. 22 from No. 26. Manziel's new jersey is already the best-selling NFL jersey since April 1, USA Today notes.