The Cleveland Browns have completed minicamp, closing out the final mandatory phase of their offseason program.
Training camp looms in late July, but significant questions persist about the quarterback position.
The organization has maintained that all four signal callers remain viable options for the starting role.
Browns insider Mary Kay Cabot recently provided her assessment of how the quarterback hierarchy currently stands after observing the team’s practices.
“Kenny Pickett number one, Dillon Gabriel number two, Joe Flacco number three, and Shedeur Sanders number four, in terms of trying to go out there and win that quarterback job. Now, of course, these guys can still jumble up that order and go out there and surprise everyone in training camp, and someone can come from behind and win the starting job. But I think that they leave with that kind of a depth chart, and it will just be up to these guys to either prove the Browns wrong or surprise everyone,” Cabot said.
The minicamp sessions revealed telling patterns about snap distribution and role expectations.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett and rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders commanded the majority of team period repetitions.
Veteran Joe Flacco received limited work until the final day when he took meaningful snaps during red zone eleven-on-eleven periods and modified seven-on-seven drills.
Flacco’s approach differs significantly from his younger competitors. At 40 years old, the focus centers on precision and timing rather than volume.
Pickett and Gabriel participated in every major drill throughout the week, including the intensive closing hurry-up sessions that tested conditioning and decision making under pressure.
Sanders operated with certain restrictions, avoiding red zone work while still accumulating repetitions in other practice segments.
This early depth chart assessment provides a framework, but preseason performances will ultimately determine how the competition unfolds when meaningful games arrive.
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