Will Shedeur Sanders even make the Browns roster?
Yahoo Sports' Nate Tice, Matt Harmon and Charles McDonald dissect the crowded QB room in Cleveland and decide who will be the odd man out. Hear the full conversation on 'Football 301' - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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If Shaor Sanders is gonna make the team, which I do think is an if, like, he was a 5th round pick, you're not guaranteed anything if you're a 5th round pick, but if he's gonna make the team, then I feel like only one of Flacco or Pickett is gonna make the team, and then it because it just doesn't make any sense to carry, like you're gonna carry all 4 of these guys again, like one of these rookies is and it would be Sanders is just never gonna get any reps, so I feel like then they just probably burned that 5th rounder in DTR but whatever, uh, on trading for Kenny Pickett.
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Um, cause I would, if, if it's Flacco Pickett, even as bad as Flacco looked last year with the Colts, I think he, I'd probably give him the edge over Kenny Pick.
Also, I can't believe Flacco is still doing this, man.
I'm gonna put Joe Flacco first because you just have to give Browns fans something that reminds them of football and not feeling like crap.
Second, I'm going to go Dillon Gabriel I think just based on draft investment.
I mean, that's a top 100 pick.
I know he hasn't played.
I personally think he's the worst of the four, but it's just hard for me to see a world where they give up on a top 100 pick year one.
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Year two, that'd be possible.
I mean they they just cut Siakika and those attack from Baylor, who's a 2nd round pick after one season, so.
I, I, I don't, I don't know if, if Gabrieltas the 3rd round of cements anything, but for the purpose of like ranking, ranking this for making the team, I think I'm going to put them 2 just because they just trapped in the top 100.
Um, then you get to Shadoor and Kenny Pickett.
I guess these are your 2 5th rounders, right?
Uh, I'll, I'll, I'll go.
I think, I think Shaddoor is a better quarterback than Kenny Pickett, but I don't know if they cut Kenny after they just tried to acquire him and they gave up another player that they valued clearly in DTR because he got to play some money snaps, uh, that I don't think most teams would have given him over the past few years.
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Uh, so I, I, I think I'll pick it 3A, Sanders 3B, but maybe those are the guys who are fighting for their chances to make the roster.
I think Flacco ends up winning it all, winning it all because I just think he even at 40 years old, is the best quarterback in this group, um, then maybe we just go on from there.
But yeah, I just think there's gonna be potentially two odd men out, not just one, because it just roster stuff, but I'll just see how the, this is Cleveland's problem, and I'm just gonna be curious how they figured it out.
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