It's Charlie Frye's Browns now

Today, Charlie Frye will have a chance to prove he's not just a regular guy.

Thanks to a knee injury to Cleveland Browns' quarterback Trent Dilfer, rookie Frye will get his first NFL start today against the Jaguars. Cleveland fans have been waiting for this for weeks, and their badgering and nagging toward Browns' coach Romeo Crennel has paid off.

Frye will face the Jaguars, who are without their starting quarterback and another former Mid-American Conference quarterback, Bryon Leftwitch. So that should give him some type of advantage. Frye is also at home, so he won't have to worry about dealing with crowd noise.

Can he do it? Can he be the future quarterback of the Browns? Everything I have seen on him says yes. I covered him last season when he played for the University of Akron, and the things he did were incredible. He found ways to win games, and he did it without even an average line and only one consistent receiver, Domenik Hixon.

So to take a team full of misfits and lead them to a 6-5 record, only two quarters away from the MAC championship game says something about Frye. He has the intangibles that you want in a quarterback. You know, those things Tom Brady has, and Peyton Manning doesn't.

And what is good for Frye is that Cleveland has weapons for him to utilize. Ruebon Droughns, Braylon Edwards, Dennis Northcutt, Steve Heiden, and an average offensive line. He will have more weapons than ever before. He should be able to produce today, even against a tough Jaguar defense and in inclement weather, since he has played in it all his life.

So I don't feel like I'm going out on a limb here when I say the Browns will win. It will be close. It might come down to a game-winning drive, but Frye will show that he should be the Browns' starting quarterback from here on out.

And come next year, when the Browns get back Kellen Winslow II, hopefully, the Browns can go back to being what the fans in Northeast Ohio want - a winner.