Browns could consider trading Kenny Pickett or defrauding IR with fake Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel injury originally appeared on The Sporting News
The Cleveland Browns have now seen what they have in their two rookie quarterbacks, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, in real game action. Albeit the preseason.
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Browns GM Andrew Berry is likely going to keep both his third-round pick and fifth-round flier. But there’s a low chance one of them will get much of a chance this season for the franchise, and there’s a zero-percent chance both of them will.
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reports that unless the team considers trading Kenny Pickett – which is a scenario Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot has shut down – we could see a fake injury, an “injury,” as Florio differentiates from an injury.
“The ultimate question could be whether the Browns trust rookie Dillon Gabriel (more likely) or rookie Shedeur Sanders (less likely) to be the No. 2 to Flacco. If so, they can try to trade Kenny Pickett. If not, Pickett would stay as the No. 2, with the Browns possibly sliding Gabriel or Sanders to IR — due to an injury or an ‘injury,’” Florio wrote.
Florio suggested in a different piece that Sanders will be left unfulfilled in almost any scenario in Cleveland.
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“Whether he gets that chance in Cleveland remains to be seen; however, he’s under contract with the Browns for four years. His career is in their hands, unless and until they trade him or release him,” Florio wrote.
“For now, it sounds as if they will be doing neither. While that will keep him on the team, it will most likely keep him from fulfilling his goals as a player.”
Based on the backlash Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski has received since Shedeur’s preseason debut, whenever the “Grown QB” has sat out, which was one game, he’d be playing with fire should he defraud the NFL’s IR with a fake Sanders injury.