Browns Coach Announces Decision On Shedeur Sanders, Quarterback Room
The Cleveland Browns could be primed to have the most interesting quarterback competition of the 2025 offseason. But for now, the Browns head coach appears to have a plan for how he'll begin the competition.
Speaking to the media this week, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski addressed the competition between rookie Shedeur Sanders, fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel and veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett. Stefanski said that the plan will be to give each player the appropriate number of reps in practice conducive to getting what he wants to see from them.
Stefanski made it clear that the number of reps or position on the written depth chart is not likely to be indicative of where the four QBs actually are in the pecking order.
“The big thing for us is making sure we give the guys enough reps that they need,” Stefanski said, via ESPN Cleveland. “Making sure that they have enough — It’s twofold. They’re learning the system, they’re developing and we’re evaluating them. We’re finding out about them. It’s not going to be everybody gets 25 percent of the reps, that’s not how it’s gonna be. We want to give everybody enough reps where we can learn more about them and prepare them to get ready to play.”
That's probably the smart approach to take.
Stefanski is pretty well qualified to conduct his quarterback competition however he wants. He's gotten the best out of Baker Mayfield and an aging Joe Flacco over the past few years, so he can probably separate the wheat from the chaffe.
The real challenge is likely to come on Cut Day, when the team needs to finalize its 53-man roster. Most NFL teams don't even carry three quarterbacks on the active roster these days thanks to the Emergency Quarterback rule, and the Browns currently have four that the team has invested interest in.
Flacco and Pickett are the veterans who are probably more ready for Week 1 than either Gabriel or Sanders despite their lower ceilings.
On the other hand, the sooner Gabriel or Sanders get onto the field, the faster they're likely to develop.
It's a fine line that Stefanski is walking.
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