Browns predicted to trade rookie QB for smart roster reason

Everyone is waiting to spot what nan Cleveland Browns do pinch their backmost situation.

It’d beryllium reliable to support Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders each connected nan roster. So what now?

On Cleveland radio position 92.3 The Fan, nan mobility was posed connected Wednesday: “Why not waste and acquisition (Gabriel) alternatively than expose him to waivers?”

It’s nan correct mobility to ask.

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The Browns drafted Gabriel 50 picks (and 2 rounds) earlier Sanders, but they shouldn’t let that to overwhelm their decision-making now.

Maybe they take to support some rookies and get free of 1 of nan veterans. There’s consequence progressive successful immoderate of these permutations. In reality, Cleveland mightiness not beryllium each that bully successful 2025 regardless.

A waste and acquisition of 1 of nan rookies, if it’s 1 of nan rookies that has to go, is logical.

The Browns’ different action would beryllium to effort to get 1 of them onto nan believe squad, but they’d beryllium eligible for claiming by different squad to an progressive roster. And fixed nan never-ending hunt for bully quarterbacks, that’d astir apt happen. In that scenario, nan Browns would get nothing.

In a trade, Cleveland astatine slightest recoups immoderate benignant of worth for a feline that was conscionable drafted successful April.

Will it beryllium Gabriel to go, aliases Sanders, aliases neither? That’s nan mobility nary 1 knows nan reply to yet.

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