Johnny Manziel's former Browns teammate reveals when he knew team would have 'problems' with him

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Johnny Manziel’s NFL career didn’t exactly live up to the hype he received in college, and one of his former teammates saw it coming.

The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner had his draft stock fall while he continued to make troubling headlines on and off the field, and it didn’t stop after he got drafted in 2014.

Selected by the Cleveland Browns with the 22nd pick that year, observers quickly concluded his partying habits weren’t going to cut it in the NFL.

And a Hall of Famer knew it almost immediately.

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Quarterback Johnny Manziel (2) and left tackle Joe Thomas (73) of the Cleveland Browns walk off the field in the fourth quarter of a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium Dec. 14, 2014, in Cleveland. (Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images)

Hall of Famer Joe Thomas, who spent a portion of his career blocking for Manziel, knew there would be "problems" before he even took a snap.

"Well, shortly after we drafted him, he vanished in the spring. We were in the middle of OTAs, and the coaches couldn’t find him," Thomas explained to Dan Patrick. "He’d come to Cleveland. He was there for like a day. He was at practice, and then he just disappeared. And I think he was just on a bender somewhere in Cleveland partying and he couldn’t find his way back to the facility. 

"It was at that moment I was like, ‘We may have some problems with this young rookie here if he can’t even find his way during OTAs when he’s a rookie and he should be trying to put his best foot forward."

Thomas said he hasn’t watched the new documentary on Netflix’s "Untold" series that featured Manziel,