The assumption has been that the Cleveland Browns have to get rid of a quarterback.
They can't go into the 2025 NFL season with all four of Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, can they?
General manager Andrew Berry provided the contrary opinion in a conversation with Yahoo Sports.
Berry said the Browns are "absolutely, absolutely, absolutely" open to keeping all four QBs on the roster. The caveat, Berry said, is "if they play well enough."
Head coach Kevin Stefanski also doesn't mind the crowded room.
“The hope is that your offense has enough breadth to it where you can accomplish anything you want to accomplish with any of those quarterbacks,” Stefanski told Yahoo Sports. “Certainly, you’d lean into one area more or less based on the guy who’s under center or in the shotgun. But we don’t think that it’s a limiting factor in any way.”
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It'd be relatively unprecedented for the Browns to take this approach. It's also not obvious what it would accomplish.
The Browns may or may not be competitive this season, but the reality is they've got to view most of their moves with at least one eye on the future.
Flacco is 40. Pickett is a journeyman. At least the two rookies haven't proven yet that they're incapable of playing at the NFL level.
Doesn't it make more sense to use a spot for some upside at a different position, rather than on a veteran quarterback who is who he is?
If you had to bet, you'd still figure the Browns get rid of a QB. But they aren't going to narrow their thinking while it's still only June.
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