{"id":31081,"date":"2025-08-22T22:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31081"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:57:55","slug":"breaking-insider-expects-cleveland-browns-to-make-puzzling-qb-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31081","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Insider Expects Cleveland Browns to Make Puzzling QB Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3056,h_1719,x_0,y_140\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/browns_digest\/01k39x5wv5e006xkhckb.jpg\" alt=\"Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco (15) throws as quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) looks on during a training camp practice July 23, 2025, in Berea, Ohio.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ev8dkxg5b\">The Cleveland Browns currently have four healthy quarterbacks on their roster, but we already know that Joe Flacco will win the starting job. So, there really isn&#8217;t much of a competition anymore outside of guys competing on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_w0neu7un5\">Kenny Pickett, Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel are all technically battling for a roster spot, although more and more momentum has been building that the Browns could potentially keep all four quarterbacks on their roster.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ikornfxhp\">But would Cleveland actually do this? Unless the Browns have limited confidence in the rookie duo of Sanders and Gabriel, keeping Pickett seems a bit redundant at this point. However, radio host Bruce Drennan said that he expects the Browns to actually roll into the regular season with a quartet of signal-callers on their 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_h7a88y65l\">&#8220;They&#8217;re going to carry the four quarterbacks,&#8221; Drennan said. &#8220;All indications are they&#8217;re going to carry all four.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-mm-id=\"_4otoudqxi\">\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"_1p4qqwjzg\" class=\"tagStyle_1mz4afy-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1p4qqwjzg\"><strong>Why would the Browns keep four quarterbacks?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_4264,h_2398,x_0,y_190\/c_fill,w_620,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/browns_digest\/01k39xhvadn93j9dx7v7.jpg\" alt=\"Cleveland Browns quarterbacks Shedeur Sanders and Kenny Pickett.\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_qyelzfz79\">Keeping four quarterbacks is incredibly unorthodox. There are some teams that don&#8217;t even retain more than two in the modern NFL, so if Cleveland did this, it would be very odd.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_eyj1696l4\">Pickett is clearly not the future for the Browns, so why not just trade him to clear a roster spot for someone else? Or does Cleveland think that neither Sanders nor Gabriel will be ready to supplant Flacco at some point during the 2025 campaign?<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_7528qhj8a\">The Browns did surrender a fifth-round pick in the Pickett trade, so perhaps they simply do not want to lose the deal by trading him for a lesser return (or outright releasing him). But it really does not make a whole lot of sense to keep four signal-callers.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_lq3fk9wqm\">Of course, Cleveland could also move one of Sanders or Gabriel, but that seems far less likely given that the Browns just drafted both of them this past April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insider is expecting the Cleveland Browns to do something very odd at quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31081","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 : Insider Expects Cleveland Browns to Make Puzzling QB Decision - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31081\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Insider Expects Cleveland Browns to Make Puzzling QB Decision - 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