With the Cleveland Browns needing to clear a logjam at quarterback, one team insider believes that there may already be one signal caller the Browns may be moving on from.
Cleveland currently has five quarterbacks on its roster and will need to trim that list down to three by the time the season starts.
While Deshaun Watson is injured, that leaves a battle for the remaining two spots between veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett as well as rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.
As early offseason practices have already gotten underway, one NFL insider believes that there’s already one signal caller who is set to be axed from the team.
Zac Jackson of The Athletic spoke to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show about the talent level of Sanders, who fell down draft boards to be selected in the fifth round.
Despite being picked two rounds later than Gabriel, Jackson already believes that Sanders has him beat.
🔥 Top Browns QB. Joe & Shedeur. Leading QBs at OTA”I watch him he is talented. I don’t see the other guy impressing at all. He does not look like an NFL QB. Joe & Shedeur 100%” 📽️ @ultCLEsports pic.twitter.com/6e481gdNy6
— JaKi 🇺🇸 (@JaKiTruth) May 29, 2025 
Cleveland Browns insider Zac Jackson believes Shedeur Sanders can make the team’s roster
Jackson also believes that Dillon Gabriel (5), picked ahead of Sanders, isn’t an NFL-worthy QB
It’s believed that Joe Flacco will be the starting quarterback for Cleveland in Week 1
Jackson made it clear that Sanders was making noise, stating, “I watch him. He is talented. I hear things, he’s handling things well. We’ll see… He’s gonna have to win every single day in the meetings, in the asking questions, in the practices, just to earn more chances.’
While Jackson believes that Sanders is capable of meeting that challenge, he doesn’t think the same of Gabriel, referring to him as ‘the other guy’: ‘I don’t see the other guy impressing at all, and I’m not trying to be personal with him.
‘He does not look like an NFL quarterback and 31 other draft rooms didn’t think he was a second-day pick. So he’s gonna have to earn those too.’
Jackson also believes that Joe Flacco will start, but predicted that Sanders may end up being the second-string quarterback.
Flacco has history with the team and, despite being 40-years-old, will have the maturity and experience to be handed the start in Week 1.
Sanders, meanwhile, has plenty of growing and developing ahead of him and could emerge as a valuable member of the Browns going forward.
