But the Browns are doing themselves a disservice if Flacco starts a majority of the season. The Browns already know what they have in the 40-year-old journeyman quarterback. Flacco is among the infamous group of 40 quarterbacks who’ve started for the Browns since 1999.
It’ll behoove the Browns to give Pickett, Gabriel and Sanders multiple opportunities to start this year – specifically Gabriel and Sanders whom Cleveland selected in the third and fifth rounds of the 2025 draft, respectively.