THE Cleveland Browns quarterback situation has gotten an update, and it’s not looking good for Shedeur Sanders’ chances to win the battle.
The 2025 fifth-round pick will be competing with four other quarterbacks to earn a roster spot this summer.
APCleveland Browns quarterback Dillon Gabriel throws the football at the rookie minicamp earlier this month[/caption] An update has been revealed on the potential Browns’ starting quarterback spot front-runner, and it’s bad news for fifth-round pick Shedeur SandersAPSanders is part of a Browns quarterback room that includes fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel, Joe Flacco, Deshaun Watson, and Kenny Pickett.
But one Browns insider believes that one of those signal-callers has a leg up in the battle for the starting job.
Cleveland.com’s Marky Kay Cabot thinks Pickett is the current favorite to lead the team’s offense in Week 1 ahead of the Browns’ OTAs and mandatory minicamps.
“It’s a tough call before we’ve even seen the first practice of organized team activities, but I know Kenny Pickett heads in as the frontrunner to win the starting job at the outset,” Cabot wrote.
“He’ll take the initial first-team reps in OTAs and probably the mandatory minicamp, and it seems like it’s his job to try to keep for now.”
Pickett didn’t play regularly with the Philadelphia Eagles last season as he appeared in five contests and completed 59.5 of his passes for 291 yards.
But he was a starter for the previous two seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Each of those campaigns saw him throw for over 2,000 yards.
The Browns signed Flacco as a free agent.
They then traded for Pickett this offseason.
The Browns now have a complicated quarterback situation as they drafted two rookie quarterbacks.
They took Gabriel with the 94th overall pick in the third round of last month’s NFL Draft.
And Sanders was picked with the 144th selection after a brutal slide to the fifth round.
It seems that early indications have pointed to Pickett to win the quarterback battle, but Cabot did seem to suggest that Flacco has a fighting chance to win the competition, too.
“Flacco’s big arm will dazzle in camp, and it will be hard to keep him off the field, especially because he’ll be fighting so hard to win the battle,” Cabot wrote.
GettyBrowns signal-caller Kenny Pickett was a backup for the Philadelphia Eagles last season[/caption]It’s unlikely that Watson will get the starter’s job as he’s expected to be out for the year.
Watson re-ruptured his right Achilles tendon.
The Browns were 3-14 in 2024 and will look to rebuild this fall.
They finished at the bottom of the AFC North.
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