NFL Trade Rumors
The Browns have maybe the most intriguing quarterback room in the sport after trading for Kenny Pickett, bringing back Joe Flacco and using draft picks on third-rounder Dillon Gabriel and fifth-rounder Shedeur Sanders.
Since the draft, many have assumed the Browns would look to move on from Pickett or Flacco to get them to three quarterbacks, as it’s rare for a team to have four quarterbacks on the 53-man roster. However, per Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports, Cleveland GM Andrew Berry said they are “absolutely, absolutely, absolutely” open to keeping all of them on the active roster.
Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com echoed this thought and brought up their low base salaries for 2025 when discussing the potential of all four making the team. She also thinks they would listen to training camp and in-season trade offers, depending on where the team stands and how each has performed.
Flacco doesn’t have much insight into the decision, but he isn’t concerned by his lack of reps taken throughout the offseason workouts.
“Listen, you gotta ask them that,” Flacco said, via SI.com’s Albert Breer. “Like I said, I don’t think there’s a huge priority to make sure that they’re getting me a ton of reps.”
Browns OC Tommy Rees gave some insight into what they are looking for in their Week 1 starter.
“Decision-making and processing.” Rees said, per Epstein. “Be able to solve problems on the field when they don’t get the ideal look. Let’s just show that we’re making the right decision and we’re putting the ball where it’s supposed to be and we’ll figure out all the other parts.”
“Every time we have an opportunity to solve a problem, make a decision — we’re looking to make the right one.”
Flacco, 40, is a former first-round pick of the Ravens back in 2008. After over a decade in Baltimore, the Broncos agreed to trade a 2019 fourth-round pick to the Ravens for Flacco.
Flacco was in the fourth year of a six-year, $125 million contract that contained $44 million guaranteed and set to make a base salary of $20.25 million for 2020 when Denver released him with a failed physical designation.
He signed a one-year contract worth $1.5 million and up to $4.5 million with the Jets in 2020 before joining the Eagles in 2021. Philadelphia traded him back to the Jets ahead of the deadline for a conditional sixth-round pick.
Flacco later re-signed with the Jets on a one-year, $3.5 million deal in 2022. He signed on with the Browns during the season in 2023 and parlayed a strong performance into a deal with the Colts in 2024. He returned to the Browns this offseason on a one-year deal.
In 2024, Flacco appeared in eight games for the Colts with six starts, completing 65.3 percent of his pass attempts for 1,761 yards, 12 touchdowns, and seven interceptions.
Sanders, 22, was a two-year starter at Jackson State before transferring to Colorado before the 2023 season, following his father and...
