Shedeur Sanders clarifies where Browns QBs stand after ‘people try to pit’ them against each other

Shedeur Sanders clarifies where Browns QBs stand after ‘people try to pit’ them against each other

There are a lot of chefs — err, quarterbacks — in the kitchen in Cleveland, with up to five potential starting signal callers in the mix for the 2025 season.

Controversial fifth-round pick Shedeur Sanders is one of those options, and he pushed back against any developing narrative of any potential strife among the quintet.

“Everybody is cool in the room,” Sanders told Kay Adams recently. “Outside of the room, people try to pit us against each other, but inside the room, we know we one.”

Shedeur Sanders talking with Kay Adams. @heykayadams/X

There’s a saying that if you have two quarterbacks, you really don’t have one, and in the Browns’ case, they are going to have to choose from a group of two rookies and three veterans.

Now, it’s likely the battle will only be a fatal four-way, to use WWE terms, since incumbent starter Deshaun Watson could miss all of the season due to multiple surgeries on his right Achilles tendon.

Thanks to his guaranteed contract, he would presumably be the starter if healthy.

Sanders will have the chance to start in 2025. AP

That leaves the battle between Sanders, 2025 third-round pick Dillon Gabriel, veteran and Super Bowl champion Joe Flacco and offseason acquisition and former first-round pick Kenny Pickett.

An early report from Cleveland.com pegged Pickett, who underwhelmed as the Steelers’ starter before serving as Jalen Hurts’ backup last year, as the projected starter.

Veteran Joe Flacco is back with the Browns. AP
Kenny Pickett reportedly is the front-runner to start. Getty Images

“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,” longtime beat writer Mary Kay Cabot wrote earlier this month. “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.”

There obviously is a lot of time until the Browns open at home against the Bengals on Sept. 7, and performance and/or injuries could dictate the situation.

Dillon Gabriel was selected two rounds before Sanders. AP

Sanders and Gabriel will have their chance to impress the coaches and perhaps show that they can be the team’s quarterback of the future.

Deion Sanders’ son has already made it clear he feels he’s the long-term answer.

“I feel like the Browns fans they just want something to hope for and they’ve been wanting it so long and long,” Sanders told the Browns’ website this month after being selected with the 144th pick. “And finally, I’m here to change that, I’m here to actually get what they want.”

Deshaun Watson may not play in 2025. AP

Sanders will have to earn his way into starting reps to effect that change, but for now, he’s enjoying getting to know his fellow quarterbacks, especially the 40-year-old Flacco.

“We all different characters,” Sanders said “It’s funny going in there and seeing Joe every day. It’s just funny. At practice, I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m really with Joe Flacco right now.’ We’re on the same team.That’s cool and of course with Kenny, the experience he has being in the league for these years it’s cool, just seeing the process of it. Deshaun, of course, he’s active in there, he’s in all the meetings so it’s cool talking to him.”

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