{"id":31322,"date":"2025-08-27T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31322"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:23:35","slug":"breaking-shedeur-sanders-moves-up-browns-qb-depth-chart-after-kenny-pickett-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=31322","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Shedeur Sanders moves up Browns QB depth chart after Kenny Pickett trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Shedeur Sanders\u00a0just moved up the\u00a0Cleveland Browns&#8217; quarterback depth chart on Monday without doing anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to multiple reports, the\u00a0Browns\u00a0traded backup quarterback\u00a0Kenny Pickett\u00a0to the\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders\u00a0on Monday evening. The news comes two days after\u00a0Raiders\u00a0backup\u00a0Aidan O&#8217;Connell\u00a0fractured his wrist and one day after Cleveland cut quarterback\u00a0Tyler &#8220;Snoop&#8221; Huntley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Browns&#8217; trade of Pickett trims the team&#8217;s quarterbacks room to just three players after months-long speculation that Cleveland might keep four gunslingers on their active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s how the Browns&#8217; quarterbacks depth chart looks now with just three quarterbacks remaining and just one veteran left standing:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Browns QB depth chart<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"gnt_ar_b_ul\">\n<li class=\"gnt_ar_b_ul_li\">Joe Flacco<\/li>\n<li class=\"gnt_ar_b_ul_li\">Dillon Gabriel<\/li>\n<li class=\"gnt_ar_b_ul_li\">Shedeur Sanders<\/li>\n<li class=\"gnt_ar_b_ul_li\">Deshaun Watson\u00a0(injured)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski named 18-year veteran Joe Flacco the team&#8217;s Week 1 starter before Cleveland&#8217;s preseason finale against the\u00a0Rams. Flacco is back in &#8220;The Land&#8221; for a second stint after he took over late in the 2023 season and led the Browns to a playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gabriel and Sanders are the two rookies that battled for the Browns&#8217; backup spot on the roster all throughout training camp. Gabriel was a third-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, and Cleveland drafted Sanders two rounds later. Between the two, Gabriel had the more consistent performance in his two preseason outings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Watson suffered a season-ending Achilles tear in Week 7 last year. In January, the Browns announced that the veteran underwent another surgery to repair the tendon after he had re-ruptured it during his recovery from the initial procedure.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Why isn&#8217;t Shedeur Sanders starting for the Browns?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sanders received more fanfare than any of the participants in Cleveland&#8217;s quarterback competition during the 2025 NFL offseason. That said, the fifth-round rookie was always facing an uphill battle to emerge as a Week 1 starter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sanders was routinely listed as the No. 4 option on Cleveland&#8217;s depth chart during the 2025 NFL offseason. He was behind Flacco,\u00a0Kenny Pickett\u00a0and fellow rookie Gabriel, meaning he had to make up ground to get into the starting quarterback race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sanders took advantage\u00a0of the opportunity presented to him in preseason Week 1, when Flacco, Pickett and Gabriel were all out of action. That allowed the Colorado product to play the bulk of the game and complete 14 of 23 passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns in a 30-10 Browns victory over the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, Sanders was unable to build on that momentum in preseason Week 2.\u00a0He suffered an oblique injury\u00a0in practice and was held out of the team&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. He followed up with a\u00a0forgettable performance\u00a0in preseason Week 3 vs. the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Sanders simply ran out of time to state his case to climb the quarterback depth chart. That prevented him from emerging as a true challenger to Flacco. The Pickett trade should provide him an opportunity to climb the team&#8217;s depth chart, but he will still have to leap at least two passers ahead of him in order to get to the starting position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usatoday.com wants to ensure the best experience for all of our readers, so we built our site to take advantage of the latest technology, making it faster and easier to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31322","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 : Shedeur Sanders moves up Browns QB depth chart after Kenny Pickett trade - 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=31322\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Shedeur Sanders moves up Browns QB depth chart after Kenny Pickett trade - 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