Steelers Stalwart Calls Out Browns Quarterback Room

The AFC North is a tale of haves and have-nots. The Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals have superstar quarterbacks. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns do not, and that tells fans everything they need to know about the division.

Sure, some years the Bengals defense will turn into sabotage, or Ravens star Lamar Jackson will get hurt. But entering each season, there are two teams in this division with real Super Bowl ambitions.

While Cincinnati and Baltimore go to battle for the right to host playoff games and make deep playoff runs, Pittsburgh has been left in quarterback purgatory. Cleveland might be even worse off.

On his podcast, “Not Just Football,” Steelers icon Cameron Heyward called out the Browns for their chaotic quarterback room.

“You don’t know what’s going on in Cleveland at the quarterback position,” Heyward said. “But you still have a lot of respect for guys like [Joe] Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel — uh, how many different quarterbacks we got over there? I know [the Browns] called us a dumpster fire today, but I’m just trying to figure out how many quarterbacks we got over there.”

Cleveland took a shot at Pittsburgh in its schedule release, giving Heyward cause to bite back.

The Browns were the main characters of the 2025 NFL Draft, trading out of the No. 2 pick and sacrificing two-way Heisman winner Travis Hunter for defensive tackle Mason Graham and a promising haul of picks. They eventually ended the most famous fall in recent draft memory by picking Sanders in the fifth round, but the move reeked of owner collusion, dampening the potential of a Day 2 talent falling to the middle of Day 3.

Cleveland drafted Gabriel, viewed by just about everyone as a lesser prospect than Sanders, in the third round. For general manager Andrew Berry, head coach Kevin Stefanski, or whoever made the call on Sanders’ selection, the preceding passer wasn’t enough to dissuade them.

As such, the Browns have four quarterbacks (five if one counts Deshaun Watson as he recovers from his Achilles tear), and presumably three spots to fill. It isn’t immediately clear if they’ll jettison a rookie or ship out one of its veterans. Perhaps Cleveland will simply eat the roster spot. In either event, Cleveland doesn’t seem much closer to joining the ranks of the Bengals and Ravens. The Steelers, especially without another acquisition under center, still aren’t that far ahead.

Heyward will get a chance to capitalize on the Browns’ poor quarterback play in Week 6 and 17.

Steelers Stalwart Calls Out Browns Quarterback Room

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