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Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders went after fellow 2025 NFL draftee Dillon Gabriel at the Browns’ rookie minicamp. When the team’s veteran quarterbacks enter the fray, the “Grown QB” will be even lower.
Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot reported Cleveland’s likely QB pecking order, and Sanders was dead last behind Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel, and Joe Flacco, in that order.
“The real test, of course, will begin on Monday when the rookies join the veterans in the offseason program, where the competition between veterans Kenny Pickett and Joe Flacco is already underway,” Cabot wrote.
“When Sanders and Gabriel join them, the pecking order could look like this, based on when and how they acquired the QBs: Pickett, Gabriel, Flacco and Sanders.
“Pickett was acquired at the start of the league year in March in a trade with the Eagles, and Flacco was signed late in free agency when even he didn’t see it coming.”
Makes sense for a fifth-round pick.
Cabot insinuates that Pickett is the likeliest of the group to earn the Browns’ starting job. Meanwhile, Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer believes Flacco is the favorite to edge out the competition.
“My sense is that Joe Flacco is going to take the first snap in the spring, which there’s some significance to that,” Breer said on “The Rich Eisen Show” last week.
Deshaun Watson also looms large in the QB room, but based on the fans’ celebration following his Achilles tendon tear last year, it’s likely he’s played his last snap in a Browns uniform – and possibly an NFL uniform altogether.
Where that leaves Sanders is unclear. He’s got the clout and notoriety to remain in the room from a business-first standpoint – and let’s not forget that each and every NFL franchise is independently owned and operated as a for-profit organization – but teams never hang onto five, or even four, QBs for long.
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