Few teams carried more scrutiny, but lower expectations, entering the training camp this summer before the NFL season than Cleveland.
Upon leaving the 3-14 record last season, the Browns were projected for the lowest overcome for the victories in 2025 by at least one important sports house. However, when team backups played during preseason exhibitions during the last three weeks, already measure that the NFL deadline to cut the lists to 53 players arrived on Tuesday, the decision of the Browns in a particular position constantly dissected.
Who would be her alternate field marshal behind the opener Joe Flacco?
Cleveland coach Kevin Stefanski appointed Dillon Gabriel in the Third Round Draft team as the winner of the backup role on Tuesday, before the Quinta Ronda Shedeur Sanders selection.
Gabriel “continues to improve,” said Stefanski on Tuesday.
“It is such a comprehensive evaluation,” the coach told journalists. “Everything the boys did in the games was important. We also saw many of them here in practice and how they are in their trade.”
Son of the member of the NFL Deion Sanders Hall of Fame, whom he played at the University in Jackson State and Colorado, Sanders was considered a possible selection of the Early Round Draft before sliding on the third day of the Draft in April.
At 40 years old and when entering its 18th NFL season, Flacco is not considered a long -term option as the head of Cleveland, who underlines the competition for his main backup. The hierarchical order largely determines practice opportunities during the season.
Sanders completed 14 of his 23 passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns without a sack while starting during the first preseason game of Cleveland on August 8; Gabriel was not available with an lesion in the hamstrings.
When Gabriel began the second preseason game, he completed 13 of his 18 passes for 143 yards with an interception and two catches. Both played at the end of preseason last week, with Gabriel completing 12 of his 19 passes for 129 yards and a touchdown, while Sanders was 3 of 6 for 14 yards, but was fired five times. The bags highlighted a particular criticism of the drafts of evaluators about the deep drops of Sanders in their pocket and how they could lead to captures.
When Cleveland retired to Sanders and played another support, Tyler Huntley, during the last two minutes of the game, further aggravated an argument that had been seriously for weeks on social networks about whether novice quartbacks were given equal opportunities. Among the critics were Shannon Sharpe and the former NFL receiver Chad Johnson, who in his YouTube program blamed the team for its management of quarterback repetitions.
“I do not worry about the types of external things, but I am committed to their development just like all our rookies,” Stefanski said during a call with journalists on Sunday, when asked about the “persistent narrative” that he was sabotizing Sanders. “We will continue to focus on improving our boys.”
Andrew Berry, general manager of Cleveland, told NFL Network after the final preseason game that the team was ready to bring four quarterbacks on its list of 53 men during the season.
“We have a room that all the boys like there,” Berry said, two days before exchanging one of those Quarterbacks, Kenny Pickett, Las Vegas. “We really don’t see that as a problem. We see it more as an opportunity.”
