{"id":37622,"date":"2025-11-14T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37622"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:14:59","slug":"breaking-browns-get-horrible-news-on-future-at-qb-amid-dillon-gabriels-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37622","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Browns Get Horrible News on Future at QB Amid Dillon Gabriel&#8217;s Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2245850536-e1763127281444.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2245850536-e1763127281444.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2245850536-e1763127281444.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2245850536-e1763127281444.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Browns Get Horrible News on Future at QB Amid Dillon Gabriel's Struggles\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns are widely expected to use an early pick in the 2026 NFL Draft on a quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland could have a top-five pick, and the Browns also have the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2018 first-round pick, which they can use to trade up to select a quarterback. However, it appears the Browns may not be able to find their franchise quarterback in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple high-ranking NFL executives spoke to The Athletic, and none were impressed by the quarterbacks that will likely be picked early in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is playing the position well enough to be like, \u2018That dude can take over my franchise,\u2019\u201d said an NFL team executive who was granted anonymity so he could speak openly.<\/p>\n<p>Another executive, meanwhile, said their team didn\u2019t love any of the top quarterback prospects as a future franchise guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t love any of (the quarterbacks) right now,\u201d a second executive said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to grasp onto somebody because there isn\u2019t anybody, and it\u2019s such a flavor of the week. Good luck right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third NFL executive continued the bad news for the Browns, as they said the quarterback class is not a good one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, we were hoping it was going to be better than last year,\u201d a third executive said. \u201cThere was a hangover from such a good class two years ago. There were more projected (quarterbacks) coming into this year, but the expectations of the higher-end players never really materialized. Some of the younger guys are leaning toward going back because they haven\u2019t played well and are making the NIL money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top quarterbacks available are Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson, LaNorris Sellers, and Dante Moore.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Browns Likely to Take a Quarterback in 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Cleveland has been using Dillon Gabriel at quarterback, but he doesn\u2019t appear to be the long-term answer.<\/p>\n<p>With that, all signs point to the Browns taking a quarterback early in the 2026 NFL Draft to be their franchise guy.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cleveland is expected to take a quarterback, Browns insider Zac Jackson of The Athletic doesn\u2019t think general manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski should make the pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team is back in the quarterback derby next year based on how things stand now. What that means for temporary starter Dillon Gabriel and Sanders is as uncertain as who will be making the selection,\u201d Jackson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause absolutely <i>zero<\/i>\u00a0about this current group\u2019s quarterback track record says they should get to make the next pick. That\u2019s true even if I\u2019m right about Sanders eventually being a starting-quality player. I don\u2019t yet know if I\u2019m right about that. And the more I watch this offense trudge its way around, I\u2019m not quite sure what anyone involved knows about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the Browns will keep Berry and Stefanski to develop their next quarterback is to be seen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cleveland Expected to Draft Mendoza<\/h2>\n<p>The Browns will likely take one of the top quarterbacks in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Bielik of Cleveland.com predicted the Browns will take Mendoza from Indiana to be their franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMendoza right now is QB1 and his game-winning drive at Penn State on Saturday only solidified that standing. He has just about everything a quarterback needs except for an elite deep ball. Mendoza has taken the next step as a quarterback under Curt Cignetti. (He) looks like the type of QB who could turn a team like the Browns back around quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza is 181-of-254 for 2,342 yards, 26 touchdowns, and 5 interceptions this season at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns are widely expected to take a quarterback early in the 2026 NFL Draft, but that may not happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37622","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 : Browns Get Horrible News on Future at QB Amid Dillon Gabriel&#039;s Struggles - 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=37622\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Browns Get Horrible News on Future at QB Amid Dillon Gabriel&#039;s Struggles - 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