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

RG3 and Hue: Two weeks after the Browns announced the signing of quarterback Robert Griffin III, questions about the dramatic – and peculiar -- acquisition persist.

Was the 26-year-old Griffin brought in to “bridge” the Browns to their next franchise hopeful taken in the draft? Or does he have a chance to earn a longer run than his two-year contract for $15 million?

Will RG3 compete against the drafted quarterback for the starting job? Or has he been assured of it already?

Will the work needed to reconstruct RG3’s fallen game and psyche detract from the greater priority of acclimating the drafted quarterback into the NFL game? Or does coach Hue Jackson consider rebuilding RG3’s game and reputation his top personal priority?

Will Jackson tailor his offense to RG3’s mobility and exploit his skill set with zone read options and outside-the-pocket sprint-outs and bootleg throws at the risk of re-injury? Or does Jackson try to reinvent him as a pocket passer?

Will RG3 be more dedicated to his profession than he was in the last three years with the Washington Redskins, given this second chance at leading a team? Or does he become the lead character in the latest Browns’ quarterback soap opera, a replacement to Johnny Manziel as a side show distraction to overall team growth?

And why exactly did Jackson not consult with RG3’s only two coaches in the NFL – Mike Shanahan and Jay Gruden – before signing him? Is the new Browns coach supremely confident in his ability to resurrect a fallen star, or is he just brazenly arrogant enough to not care what Shanahan and Gruden had to say about Griffin’s stunning demise with the Redskins?

Answers to these questions will be sought when RG3 is introduced to Browns media on Wednesday during a break in the first week of Jackson’s first offseason conditioning program.

Hue’s diligence due: Jackson spent two days working out and interrogating Griffin in Browns headquarters. Jeff Darlington of NFL.com reported that Jackson was so impressed during the workout that Jackson felt as if “the Earth moved beneath my feet.”

But the Browns did not sign Griffin immediately, Jackson said at NFL meetings in March, because, “There’s always so much more information to gather. You want to know as much about the player and the person as you can. And we’ll do our due diligence.”

Yet when I asked Gruden, Griffin’s coach the past two years with the Redskins, if Jackson had talked to him about Griffin, he said no. Gruden and Jackson shared two years together as assistant coaches with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2012 and 2013.

“I haven’t talked to Hue at all about Robert,” Gruden said then. “I don’t know if that day will come or not. He can always call.”

The Browns announced the signing of Griffin two days later to a contract that guarantees him $6.75 million and can earn him up to $22 million over two years with incentives.

After the signing, Shanahan – who coached Griffin during his first two roller-coaster seasons with the Redskins – reflected on their tumultuous time together in an interview with theMMQB.com.

Shanahan attributed Griffin’s demise in Washington not to his knee injury at the end of his fantastic 2012 rookie season but his reluctance, if not refusal, to adhere to Shanahan’s plan to continue running the zone read, and Griffin’s epic failure to convert to pocket passing.

“He really believed that he wanted to throw the ball more and run less, and that wasn’t going to work with me running the offense,” Shanahan told Jenny Ventras of theMMQB.com. “That’s one of the reasons Jay was hired: He was going to run a drop-back attack, and Jay has done that. Robert wasn’t completely comfortable in that, and I think that has proven out over the last couple years.”

Shanahan believes Griffin has to run to be successful -- in a system close to what he comforted in at Baylor University -- and he has to learn how to slide to avoid further injury.

“No. 1, he is going to have to do things that the coach thinks give him the best chance to be successful,” Shanahan said. “Before, he thought it was the drop-back passing game. Going into his second year, he thought that was going to be a natural fit for him.

“That’s up to Hue Jackson now, and I think that Hue will do an excellent job of giving him the chance to run a system that utilizes his talents. Robert is going to have to be all-in, and he should be right now, given the fact that his options are limited. Hue will make that decision, and Robert has to buy in. If he doesn’t buy in, then Robert will be out of the league.”

When Vrentas asked Shanahan if Jackson had consulted with him, he answered, “I didn’t talk to anybody about Robert. The only guy I really talked to about Robert was [Rams coach] Jeff Fisher.”

Confidence or arrogance?: Jackson has gained a reputation as a “quarterback whisperer,” able to bring out the best in a variety of quarterbacks such as Carson Palmer, Joe Flacco, Jason Campbell and Andy Dalton.

He said he didn’t feel the need to consult about Griffin with Gruden – I didn’t ask about Shanahan at the time – because he had confidence in himself.

“It's good to have a relationship with Jay, but at the same time we are going to trust in what we know and what we feel that we find,” Jackson said. “Because sometimes those things are different. He was, and is, a tremendous player. And sometimes things just don't work out.

“Sometimes until you can get your hands on a person and talk to him and see what was going through their mind, why did things maybe not work out, do you really know. So I trust all the information given to me about him, but at the same time I'm going to trust instincts and my gut and what I think is the best as we go through that process.”

The Browns hired Jackson to fix their generations-long quarterback problem. They are right to defer to him on this all-important issue.

He’d better be right, of course, because Jackson’s future – and the franchise’s – rests with the quarterbacks that he chooses.