We're a week away from rookies reporting to Cleveland Browns training camp and 10 days from the veterans arriving.
The Browns and all involved will be focused heavily on the quarterback battle, where veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett will compete with two rookies, third-round draft pick Dillon Gabriel from Oregon, and Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, taken in the fifth round.
We haven't even seen any of them in a Browns uniform in game action except for Flacco, who went 4-1 to end the season in 2023 and led the team to an unlikely playoff berth.
But some think that all four will fail soon enough for Cleveland to draft a top quarterback in 2026, and that target is Penn State's Drew Allar, per Cleveland.com's Dan Labbe.
“The Medina product will be a divisive draft prospect, especially around here if the Browns are in the market for a quarterback," Labbewrote. "At 6-foot-5 and 235 pounds, he was earning Josh Allen comps before arriving in Happy Valley. Allar could be the poster child for not being a finished product after two years starting in college and make a leap this season.
"Or he could have Browns fans arguing over if simply being from Northeast Ohio is enough to make him their quarterback of the future.”
Nothing against Allar, he's clearly going to be a top pick in 2026 at quarterback. But isn't this just a bit silly?
There's a bigger story here if this happens.
If the Browns play so terribly again in 2025 that they earn a top-three or five pick in next year's draft, there will be sweeping changes across the board in Cleveland.
Most likely, both coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry will be fired.
That should be the story. Not who will play quarterback.
I find it hard to believe that both Gabriel and Sanders will be off the roster that soon.
It just doesn't make sense to me.