{"id":269593,"date":"2025-08-07T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269593\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:01:11","slug":"kenny-pickett-and-dillon-gabriel-out-for-preseason-week-1-vs-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269593\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel out for preseason Week 1 vs. Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Browns held their final practice for the week on Wednesday in a joint practice with the Panthers ahead of their first preseason game on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n

Before the joint practice, head coach Kevin Stefanski said they will rest several of their starters for the first preseason game. He used the joint practice as a chance to get reps for the veterans and starters, with the idea of using the preseason game reps for younger players.<\/p>\n

“We’ll rest some starters. Some players will play, obviously holding out some guys due to injury,” Stefanski said.<\/p>\n

QB Dillon Gabriel<\/a> and QB Kenny Pickett<\/a> and are among the players who will not play on Friday, as both are returning from hamstring injuries. Both Gabriel and Pickett participated in 7-on-7 drills during the joint practice. Stefanski said the only two quarterbacks who will see game action are QB Shedeur Sanders<\/a> and QB Tyler Huntley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stefanski said that they will also hold out WR Jerry Jeudy<\/a> and WR Cedric Tillman<\/a> from the first preseason game against the Panthers, but the rest of the other receivers will see playing time.<\/p>\n

CB Greg Newsome II<\/a>, who is dealing with a shoulder injury, was limited in Wednesday’s practice. Stefanski added that Newsome continues to progress back from his injury.<\/p>\n

G Zak Zinter<\/a> did not participate in Wednesday’s practice, as Stefanski said he stayed back in Cleveland. Zinter left Monday’s practice early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns held their final practice for the week on Wednesday in a joint practice with the Panthers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[43085,235,260,2567,52210,198,7,17416,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-269593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-adpartnerinjury_report","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-at-carolina-panthers-2025-pre-1","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-injury-report","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114988796015863554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}