Johnny Manziel retained a ton of hype, but had a bumpy first season as a NFL professional football player.

Johnny Manziel Suffers Hamstring Injury During Second Professional Start & Is Pulled From The Game

On Tuesday, ESPN's website reported that the Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback reflected on his first professional season, in which he only started twice.

Manziel's first professional season came to an end Sunday when he got injured during his second professional start against the Carolina Panthers. It wasn't announced until Monday though as reported by NFL's website.

Johnny Manziel's Hamstring Injury Ends His Season

The rookie said, "It's been a year of growing up for me," about his first professional season.

"It's a job for me now. I have to take it a lot more seriously than maybe I did at first," he revealed.

It's currently unknown where he stands with the Browns, but Coach Mike Pettine said, "The sample size is tough," when discussing the rookie's short amount of time on the field as reported by ESPN's website.

Manziel doesn't think it would be fair of the organization to give up on him so easily.

"I don't think it'd be fair to give up on somebody after seven quarters of football," he said. "If that's what they are in the business for and what they intended on me coming in here doing, just giving them seven quarters, giving them a couple of games and then looking somewhere else, I don't feel that's a lot of commitment of sticking with somebody."

He finished his rookie season with 18-of-35 for 175 yards, no passing touchdowns and two interceptions. He also had 29 rushing yards with one touchdown.

Manziel revealed, "I haven't painted the greatest picture of me being in here and staying on top of my stuff. I'm sure the stuff off the field has negatively affected that. But I know, and what matters to me the most, is that guys in this locker room see that I'm working…This is my life and my job and I'm 100 percent committed to that."

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