{"id":25819,"date":"2025-06-15T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25819"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:40:06","slug":"breaking-gabriel-gets-troubling-news-on-browns-qb1-job-as-sanders-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25819","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Gabriel Gets Troubling News on Browns QB1 Job, as Sanders Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213798712-e1746910809124.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213798712-e1746910809124.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213798712-e1746910809124.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2213798712-e1746910809124.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Gabriel Gets Troubling News on Browns QB1 Job, as Sanders Surges\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Getty Images Cleveland Browns quarterback Dillon Gabriel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns have not made any decisions yet on who will start at quarterback come Week 1 of the regular season, but official preseason depth chart decisions are getting close.<\/p>\n<p>Third-round rookie Dillon Gabriel and fourth-year QB Kenny Pickett got the most reps throughout mandatory minicamp last week, and Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com offered a recent report that seemingly puts Gabriel in the driver\u2019s seat as training camp approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very significant right now that they\u2019re throwing first-teamers at Dillon,\u201d Cabot said on June 12. \u201cDillon is playing with the first-team offense against the first-team defense. I mean, those are choice quality reps that he\u2019s getting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported two days later on an episode of \u201cSportsCenter\u201d that the Browns have set nothing in stone and that Shedeur Sanders has turned heads since arriving in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanders \u2026 showed the ability to put the ball in some tight windows. He threw with aggressiveness, took some chances, so they like where he sits,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cNow [Browns head coach Kevin] Stefanski has to formulate a plan in training camp that is probably a little more crystallized, maybe has a little more depth chart to it. They are not there yet, but Sanders has made an impression \u2014 there\u2019s no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Shedeur Sanders Has Physical Advantage, While Dillon Gabriel Holds Upper Hand as Game Processor<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5385363\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2219062341-e1749666911556.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Gabriel Gets Troubling News on Browns QB1 Job, as Sanders Surges\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5385363\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5385363\">GettyCleveland Browns rookie quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel (left) and Shedeur Sanders (right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further reports from earlier in the week also indicate that Sanders is more physically prepared to immediately step into an NFL game than is Gabriel, given that Sanders is\u00a0a fifth-round pick who arguably has first-round physical talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically, Sanders can start in the NFL right now,\u201d Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports reported on June 9, citing sources from within the Browns organization.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added that Gabriel\u2019s processing abilities are ahead of Sanders\u2019, at least at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite all the talk about Colorado Buffaloes offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur utilizing a pro-style scheme that supposedly made Sanders more \u2018pro-ready\u201d than some other quarterbacks, I don\u2019t think that has proven to be the case,\u201d Robinson continued. \u201cNot only is Sanders going to be mentally swimming with the complexity of an NFL offense, there is a lot of work to do with the basic terminology and verbiage utilized by Stefanski\u2019s scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Battle Between Dillon Gabriel, Shedeur Sanders Likely to Shape Browns\u2019 QB Room for Years to Come<\/h2>\n<div 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Gabriel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The winner in the rookie QB battle between Gabriel and Sanders may not be the winner of the QB1 battle going on among the entire roster, as former Browns playoff starter Joe Flacco is also in the mix \u2014 albeit at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>But the player who shows more in the preseason and the regular season is far more likely to play out his rookie contract in Cleveland, while the other could be on another team come Week 1 of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns will likely move on from one of the four quarterbacks currently in the hunt for the starting job before the summer is out, while an injured Deshaun Watson will remain a financial albatross dangling around the franchise\u2019s neck for at least another year or two.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland could also end up in the hunt for the No. 1 pick again next season, depending on how the quarterback position shakes out in 2025, which could introduce another element \u2014 such as Arch Manning, perhaps \u2014 into the conversation of who the Browns\u2019 longterm solution at quarterback will ultimately be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel isn&#8217;t as far ahead of Shedeur Sanders as practice reps appear to indicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Gabriel Gets Troubling News on Browns QB1 Job, as Sanders Surges - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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