Recent reports indicated that the Cleveland Browns will maintain a pair of quarterback competitions this summer season.
One will function veteran Joe Flacco battling with 2022 first-round draft alternative Kenny Pickett for the beginning job. The opposite will contain rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders competing for both the QB2 or QB3 gig, relying on how normal supervisor Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski finalize the active roster forward of Week 1.
Throughout a Friday look on ESPN Cleveland, Stefanski previewed what followers can anticipate from the signal-callers throughout coaching camp.
“The large factor for us is ensuring we give the blokes sufficient reps that they want,” Stefanski stated, Professional Soccer Discuss’s Josh Alper of shared. “Ensuring that they’ve sufficient — It’s twofold. They’re studying the system, they’re creating and we’re evaluating them. We’re discovering out about them. It’s not going to be, all people will get 25 p.c of the reps. That’s not the way it’s gonna be. We need to give all people sufficient reps the place we are able to be taught extra about them and put together them to get able to play.”
Some might imagine these feedback recommend Flacco is an early frontrunner to start the season atop the depth chart. In spite of everything, he is the one lively quarterback on Cleveland’s roster who has confronted defenses in significant video games whereas enjoying in Stefanski’s offense, so the 40-year-old does not have to “be taught the system” or “develop” whereas working with the teaching workers.
Through the second half of the 2023 season, Flacco went 4-1 as Cleveland’s momentary QB1 to information the membership to a playoff berth. As of Friday afternoon, FanDuel Sportsbook listed Flacco because the betting favourite at +116 odds to be named Cleveland’s Week 1 starter. FanDuel had Pickett second on the listing at +200 odds.
As for Sanders, he was arguably the most-recognized title in his draft class earlier than he fell to the fifth spherical. Cleveland followers are hoping he’ll get a chance to win the beginning job, and it appears the polarizing prospect has impressed Stefanski over the previous month:
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