The Browns have their quarterback room set for Week 1.
Cleveland launched QB Tyler Huntley on Sunday, leaving the workforce with 4 signal-callers — Week 1 starter Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders — on its 53-man roster.
Huntley, who signed earlier this month amid accidents, was the one former Professional Bowl QB on the roster.
There was a variety of speak concerning the Browns’ quarterback pool this yr, particularly because it included two drafted rookies in Sanders and Gabriel.
Whereas Flacco has been tabbed because the starter, Pickett will presumably be the No. 2 when he recovers from the delicate hamstring damage that sidelined him this preseason.
Since Gabriel acquired the nod forward of Sanders within the workforce’s preseason finale, nevertheless, there may be hypothesis that the Oregon product is on the uptick.
Sanders has had a combined bag of a preseason, by which he began video games in opposition to the Panthers and Rams. Requested if he deserved to be on Cleveland’s roster come September, Sanders gave a pointed reply.
“Clearly,” he instructed reporters. “I believe general as a participant I’ve put within the work and every little thing I do I attempt to do it one of the best and that’s all I ask for,” Sanders stated. “I really feel like all people appears like they need to be on the workforce and should you ask anyone in the event that they really feel like they belong they belong in their very own eyes. So I really feel like I do, however I’m my very own participant. I take into consideration myself in a excessive regard.”
The Browns host the Bengals on Sept. 7 to open the season.
