Whereas the ink nonetheless isn’t dry on Joe Flacco‘s contract with the Browns, there’s already hypothesis that the veteran could not make it to the common season together with his new squad. Based on Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, Joe Flacco is probably going the odd man out within the Browns quarterbacks room.
The workforce’s positional depth has clearly modified a bit since Flacco inked a take care of Cleveland in early April. The Browns added a pair of big-name rookies through the draft, and it sounds just like the workforce is dedicated to giving roster spots to each third-round choose Dillon Gabriel and stunning fifth-round choose Shedeur Sanders.
Because the Browns navigated Deshaun Watson‘s harm and tenuous standing on their squad, the workforce went out and made a commerce for Kenny Pickett earlier this offseason. Cabot believes the previous first-round choose is in prime place to retain his roster spot, and that would depart Flacco on the surface wanting in.
The workforce would certainly solely commit three roster spots to the quarterback place, however Cabot says the workforce might dangle on to 4 QBs for the primary iteration of their 53-man roster. The workforce did one thing comparable final yr, once they stored Tyler Huntley with the hopes of a commerce popping up. A deal by no means got here to fruition, and the group moved on from Huntley earlier than Week 1.
It’s laborious to check a protracted line of suitors for Flacco. That has nothing to do together with his high quality of play — even throughout his age-39 season, Flacco gained a pair of video games whereas tossing 12 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Relatively, groups will doubtless be cognizant of Flacco’s spot on Cleveland’s roster, and so they could wait out an inevitable launch if they really have curiosity within the veteran.
On the flip aspect, Flacco might merely play himself into a job, doubtlessly resulting in a tough scenario for the Browns. The probably path would see them transfer on from Pickett, but when each vets are really deserving of a spot, then it wouldn’t be out of the realm of chance for them to ditch a draft choose or attempt to sneak a rookie onto their follow squad.
In the meantime, we’ve lastly gotten some particulars on Flacco’s contract (via OverTheCap.com). His one-year, $4M pact contains $3M in assured cash, though a piece of that complete is tied to roster bonuses that might be averted. Flacco can be connected to a $2.85M cap hit, and the Browns could be left with half of that on the books in the event that they outright launched the quarterback.
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