Browns’ QB race heats up: Insider reveals who’s on top to start in 2025
The Cleveland Browns have entered 2025 with one of the most intriguing quarterback competitions in recent memory. With five signal-callers on the roster, veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, rookies Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel, plus injured Deshaun Watson, the team is strategically evaluating experience versus potential. Shedeur Sanders gets uneasy over a sensitive topicAnd according to several insiders, one name has taken an early lead in practice.Pickett takes the first-team repsMary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reported that Kenny Pickett has received the majority of firstteam reps during OTAs and minicamp. "It seems like it's his job to try to keep for now," she wrote, indicating Pickett has emerged as the frontrunner to open as the Browns' Week 1 starter. That sentiment is echoed by Sports Illustrated, which notes that Pickett is "heading in as the frontrunner to win the starting […]