We’re only in minicamp, but it’s going to be a long summer if you play quarterback and are on the Cleveland Browns roster.
New head coach Todd Monken has made it extremely clear that no one has the job, regardless of what happened last year, and that while he wants to find his QB1 by the end of training camp, it will be a competition.
As we head into those competitive months, here is how I have the QB room ranked in Cleveland, per interviews and reports from around the NFL Draft and minicamp.
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1. Deshaun Watson
Do I think Watson should be the Browns’ starting QB? No.
But everything that we’ve heard out of Cleveland points to the team being fully prepared to give Watson a chance to retake his old job after being out last year due to injury.
Watson is a husk of his former self, and even at his peak, he wasn’t a top-five signal-caller in football. Maybe the Browns just think he’s the best QB they have that can help them get Arch Manning next offseason?
2. Shedeur Sanders
Sanders ended last year as a starter, but I will not be surprised if he’s back on the bench for Week 1, holding a clipboard, waiting for his next turn to prove himself.
He did nothing last year to lock down a starter’s job, but there’s more potential with Sanders than whatever is left of Watson.
3. Taylen Green
Green is the best athlete in the QB room, and it’s not even close. From his 40-yard dash to his vertical jump, Green is someone you can throw out there, toss him a ball, and he’ll do something either ridiculously cool or terrifyingly horrendous. He might never be a true starting QB in the league, but what if he could be our next Taysom Hill?
4. Dillon Gabriel
Gabriel was a great college quarterback. In the pros, though? I don’t see it. While he is a far superior passer compared to Green, his ceiling is not much higher than his floor in the NFL. Gabriel is intelligent, good at shorter throws, and responsible. So while he might never lead a team to the playoffs, he’s the type of player you will look back on in a decade, and Gabriel will be on a random NFL roster.
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