BEREA — Jerome Baker could've come into the building and allowed himself a chance to settle in before taking charge. That wouldn't be the veteran Browns linebacker's way, though.

"I just tell all the guys, like, I'm just here if you guys need me, man," Baker said Aug. 28. "I know I've been in this game for a little while. Any way they can lean on me, I just try to be there for them, so that's my approach. I kind of just go where they need me and do what I can to help guys get better."

Baker, 28, arrived with his hometown team as a piece of veteran depth at a position where so much of the group has been in the league three years or less. That came before the Browns suffered veteran brain drain at the linebacker position.

That started in May, when the Browns announced the neck injury

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