Browns' QB competition gets 'complicated' update that doesn't look good for Shedeur Sanders

The Cleveland Browns are approaching 1 of nan odder training camps they'll person successful caller memory.

They genuinely spell successful pinch 4 quarterbacks who could conceptually beryllium nan starter pinch Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.

SI's Albert Breer sums it up pinch 1 word: "Complicated."

Breer besides collapsed it down successful a awesome way. Here's overmuch of what he wrote successful a caller portion connected Monday:

Here are nan first six weeks of nan Browns’ schedule: Cincinnati, astatine Baltimore, Green Bay, astatine Detroit, Minnesota (in London), astatine Pittsburgh. That, if you’re keeping people astatine home, is 5 of past year’s playoff teams successful a row, preceded by an opener against a squad that was successful nan Super Bowl 3 years agone and has each correct to judge getting backmost location successful 2025 is connected nan radar.

I laic that retired to opportunity that there’s nary soft landing successful September done which nan Browns tin keep working their backmost business out. Time is short. Reps successful campy will beryllium valuable.

Bottom line: It wouldn’t beryllium adjacent to nan remainder of nan squad to resistance things out.

And to their credit, Kevin Stefanski, Tommy Rees and nan unit person already been strategical astir handling that. They cognize what Joe Flacco is, truthful they much aliases little sold him connected taking a “first-round bye” done nan spring, truthful they could get Kenny Pickett, Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel much reps. With nan further reps came much information, and I’d expect that accusation will thief them disagreement reps pinch nan starters.

To that end, you’ll astir apt beryllium capable to spot wherever things guidelines early on. Flacco will beryllium successful nan running. Pickett almost surely will be, too. Gabriel showed an expertise to process and awesome consciousness for nan position, and looked improved successful really accelerated he was playing early on—plus adds immoderate diversion ability. How often his size shows up successful 11-on-11 will beryllium key. And Sanders was down nan battalion to start, but worked to drawback up and will person to proceed earning his reps.

I’d conjecture Stefanski and Rees will want to constrictive nan title early on, conscionable to get nan different guys connected discourtesy much activity pinch quarterbacks who are genuinely successful nan moving to lead nan squad arsenic it navigates that sadistic early schedule. There’s besides nan matter of what type of discourtesy they’ll play—Pickett and Gabriel, for example, would person much elements keying connected their athleticism than Flacco aliases Sanders would—that needs to beryllium figured out.

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Breer besides goes connected to punctual that eventually, Deshaun Watson will return from his torn Achilles.

The Browns person a batch of different ways they tin spell here. For a squad that mightiness beryllium alternatively unsmooth this season, it's rather nan compelling storyline anyway.

And it's safe to expect that aggregate QBs will get starts successful Cleveland this season, too.

There's still overmuch to beryllium determined.

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