Quinn agrees to five-year contract with Browns, ends holdout

The Browns have only two practices before their first preseason game Saturday at home against the Kansas City Chiefs.

"Maybe in the fourth quarter we might want to give him a snap," Crennel said.

Rookie offensive tackle Joe Thomas said he's looking forward to Quinn competing and pushing the other quarterbacks. He doubted Quinn's holdout would be an issue with his teammates.

"I don't think it's something that guys will hold against him as long as he comes in here and works hard," Thomas said.

The major sticking points in negotiations between the Browns and agent Tom Condon were escalator clauses based on playing time for Quinn.

Condon proposed allowing Quinn to get a $5 million increase in the final two years of a potential five-year deal if he takes 55 percent of the snaps in any two of the first three years or 70 percent in any one of the first three. The Browns wanted to make the triggers tougher to reach.

Quinn was seeking $8 million in guaranteed money, roughly the same amount that the No. 20 pick, cornerback Aaron Ross, got from the New York Giants.

Savage expressed frustration with negotiations and talks intensified over the weekend. The two sides were only $500,000 apart in guaranteed money as of Monday. They basically split the difference in arriving at $7.75 million guaranteed.

Savage said Quinn's intelligence and work ethic are two traits that the Browns liked about the quarterback. He said those traits will serve him well over the coming days.

"I don't think he'll be getting a lot of sleep over the next few weeks trying to catch up," Savage said.

Oakland quarterback JaMarcus Russell (No. 1 overall) and New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis (No. 14) are the only first-round picks without contracts.

Notes

• Guard Eric Steinbach, the team's top free-agent acquisition, left practice after he fell on his right knee. He walked off the field with a trainer and did not return. "I would say he bruised it," Crennel said. "That's what I would say because we didn't have pads on inside and we were on the turf and he came down on the knee." The Browns signed Steinbach to a seven-year, $49.5 million contract in March.