‘Johnny Football’ enters rehab

by Shelby Kramer, [email protected]

photo courtesy of cleveland.comJohnny Manziel shows his adopted gesture, the “money sign,” at a Cleveland Indians game against the Boston Red Sox at Progressive Field in June 2014. 

Shelby Kramer

Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel is in rehab. According to the team, Manziel checked himself into a treatment center Jan. 28 following a rough first year in the NFL, after chosen by the Browns in the first round of the 2014 draft.

According to FoxNews.com, the team said Manziel is using the off-season to “improve in order to be a better family member, friend and teammate.”

Manziel was benched for most of his rookie year before he held a starting position in Cleveland’s first game against the Bengals, the Browns winning 30-0.

In his five appearances of the season, Manziel completed only about 51 percent of his passes, featuring zero touchdowns and two interceptions.

Manziel’s lack of playing time was accompanied by rough antics off the field. The 22-year-old is infamous for his partying ways.

In June, a picture of Manziel surfaced that showed him drinking from a champagne bottle while floating on an inflatable swan at a pool party in Austin, Texas. He also allegedly shouted the f-word into his “money phone,” a.k.a. a stack of cash.

A month later, Manziel appeared to be rolling up a dollar bill inside a Las Vegas bathroom, fostering speculation of possible drug use.

According to an ESPN report, several teammates were interviewed last month only to tell of a Manziel who was constantly late for meetings, who failed to study the plays and who was suspended from the team’s finale — reportedly, he was found drunk.

The kind of treatment and how long Manziel will be treated have not been released.