The Cleveland Browns have basically turned over their entire quarterback room this offseason, save for Deshaun Watson, who could miss the entire 2025 campaign due to two Achilles tendon injuries sustained last October and last January.
Two veterans, Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, will compete for the starting job ... with two rookies, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, also vying for work.
Many have speculated what the outcome of this summer's quarterback competition will be, and there are a number of different ways this thing can go.
The Browns' radio play-by-play announcer, Andrew Siciliano, joined the "Talking Heads" show on 92.3 The Fan and offered his guess as to how this all plays out.
"If there were a game tomorrow, it would be Kenny Pickett or Joe Flacco," Siciliano said. "I might lean Kenny Pickett right now. If Shedeur Sanders hadn't fallen to the fifth round, your quarterback room would be Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel, and you would probably say it's a competition between Pickett and Flacco. Pickett's the younger one and Dillon Gabriel is going to learn and be the understudy and learn from two veterans.
"If one was demonstrably better, then sure, but it's Kenny Pickett and Joe Flacco."
He's correct that the Sanders situation injects what could be a complicated element to the quarterback competition. If both rookies perform well this offseason, does that make one of them - or one of the veterans - expendable via a trade?
There are still teams that need a quarterback; just ask the Steelers and Saints.
And if the Browns flip the script and have four viable options for a starting quarterback in 2025, who's the odd man out, if anyone?
Siciliano continued his prediction breaking noting that for the Browns, the preseason could help decide what happens under center.
"You have two joint practices with the Panthers and the Eagles; you get a lot of work done in joint practices," Siciliano said. "And, you have three meaningful preseason games. This summer is going to be different. Gone are the days of 'this preseason game means nothing.'
"These preseason games truly do mean something, and that's going to be fun."