The Cleveland Browns announced Wednesday that rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer will take back his role as the starting quarterback for Week 7 against the Tennessee Titans.
Kizer was replaced by Kevin Hogan midway through Cleveland's Week 5 game against the New York Jets, and Hogan was subsequently handed the start for Week 6 against the Houston Texans - a 33-17 loss.
In one start and three relief appearances, Hogan has gone 46-for-75 passing, recording 517 passing yards, four touchdowns, and five interceptions, while adding 71 rushing yards on 10 attempts.
Kizer is 81-for-159 passing this season, racking up 851 yards, three touchdowns, and a whopping nine interceptions through five starts but just one completed game.
Head coach Hue Jackson believes Kizer learned from watching Hogan, who threw three interceptions and completed just 54.1 percent of his pass attempts in Week 6.
"I think when you see some of the things that have happened to you in games and you can see it happening with somebody else that hurts your football team, you understand ... the turnovers are putting the team at risk," Jackson said Monday.
"When there is a chance, an opportunity to score points, and here comes a turnover coming the other way, when sometimes the accuracy - you miss a ball, you throw it a little high or a little low, or whatever all those things are - that it stops drives, and it doesn't give your offensive football team the best opportunity to have success."
Kizer hasn't played a game to completion since the season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers, when he recorded his best QB rating of the year.
At 0-6 and tied with the San Francisco 49ers at the bottom of the NFL standings, the Browns will hope their second-round selection from the 2017 draft can earn them their first win.
Hogan has been demoted to third-string quarterback with sophomore Cody Kessler bumped up to Kizer's backup, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
