{"id":32956,"date":"2025-05-08T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32956\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:55:15","slug":"cleveland-browns-no-1-quarterback-revealed-after-drafting-shedeur-sanders-amid-deshaun-watson-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32956\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns&#8217; No 1 quarterback revealed after drafting Shedeur Sanders amid Deshaun Watson injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-182\/daniel-matthews.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DANIEL MATTHEWS<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=_DanMatthews_&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  19:24 EDT, 7 May 2025   |  Updated:  20:06 EDT, 7 May 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Joe Flacco is reportedly in &#8216;pole position&#8217; to be the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cleveland-browns\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8d3c6780-2b8b-11f0-9fe6-f11cf4c02a2e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>&#8216; No 1 quarterback heading into the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Browns have a packed quarterback room following last month&#8217;s draft, when<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-14679733\/tom-brady-shedeur-sanders-advice-nfl-draft-slide.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> they picked both Shedeur Sanders<\/a> and Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That left head coach Kevin Stefanski with five signal callers on the roster, with Flacco, Kenny Pickett and injured starter Deshaun Watson already in the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Watson faces another lengthy spell on the sidelines after tearing his Achilles again in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And according to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Q_2EDv8QCw\" id=\"mol-c171fd80-2b95-11f0-9fe6-f11cf4c02a2e\" class=\"class\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, 40-year-old Flacco is thought to be the man to oust heading into preseason training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Flacco is back with the Browns for a second stint, while Pickett was traded to Cleveland after helping the Eagles win the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/super_bowl\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c18e3810-2b95-11f0-9fe6-f11cf4c02a2e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4d1f28eafc9fe6ee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98154027-14689401-image-a-1_1746659387386.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Joe Flacco is reportedly in 'pole position' to be the Browns ' quarterback heading into 2025\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Joe Flacco is reportedly in &#8216;pole position&#8217; to be the Browns &#8216; quarterback heading into 2025<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6b6e384c39fecf9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98154087-14689401-image-a-8_1746660008486.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-235bfd5f1946ae51\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98154101-14689401-image-m-7_1746660002254.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Deshaun Watson\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Cleveland drafted Shedeur Sanders (L) and Dillon Gabriel, while Deshaun Watson (R) is injured<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former Oregon quarterback Gabriel, meanwhile, was selected ahead of Sanders in last month&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was taken by Cleveland with the 94th overall pick, while Sanders had to wait until the fifth round before being selected. It was one of the most stunning slides in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 23-year-old has <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-14684405\/Shedeur-Sanders-Browns-quarterback-NFL-rookie.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">now been denied the No 2 jersey<\/a>, which he\u2019s worn since his high school days in Texas. Sanders will instead begin the Browns\u2019 offseason programs as No 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Journeyman receiver DeAndre Carter has been given No 2 \u2013 a number he hasn\u2019t worn at any of his previous eight stops in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/sports-illustrated\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cleveland-browns\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Cleveland Browns&#8217; No 1 quarterback revealed after drafting Shedeur Sanders amid Deshaun Watson injury<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DANIEL MATTHEWS Published: 19:24 EDT, 7 May 2025 | Updated: 20:06 EDT, 7 May 2025 Joe Flacco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,3225,7,6,817,2348],"class_list":{"0":"post-32956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-dailymail","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports-illustrated"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114470671095764360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956","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=32956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}