{"id":800697,"date":"2026-03-08T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:36:20","slug":"cleveland-browns-one-surefire-way-to-make-the-qb-room-even-worse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800697\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns: One surefire way to make the QB room even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">A free-for-all! It feels like the Browns are headed this way, a room filled with three returning options in Sanders, Watson, and Gabriel \u2014 plus another one (or two) added to the room for good measure and good (is that the right word?) competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">There are fans who believe in Sanders, and he did show some flashes in his rookie season, but he was highly inconsistent, and the numbers don\u2019t look great. Sanders threw seven touchdowns, 10 interceptions, and ranked 41st of 42 eligible quarterbacks in EPA per attempt (only Jets undrafted rookie Brady Cook was worse).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Gabriel threw seven touchdowns and two interceptions, but also ranked 40th in EPA per attempt, and his off-target throw percentage (13.5 percent) ranked 35th. He does not look like a starting-caliber quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s not to say Fields is looking that way these days either. After playing perhaps the best he has in his Jets debut against the Steelers, he struggled immensely, passing for fewer than 100 yards four times. By the end of the season, Fields seemed scared to throw the ball and struggled to work through his progressions. But there is talent \u2014 and his mobility is undoubtedly a weapon, something that few are better at weaponizing than Monken. Fields won\u2019t cost much at this point and, as a bonus, he\u2019s a beloved figure in Ohio thanks to his time as a Buckeye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free-for-all! It feels like the Browns are headed this way, a room filled with three returning options&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,3295,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-800697","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-cleveland-browns-free-agency","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800697","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=800697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}