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Joe Flacco on Kenny Pickett's injury as quarterback race continues: 'You don't want to see something like that'
Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco spoke about the unfortunate timing of an injury to teammate Kenny Pickett in training camp on Monday. Over the weekend, the tight competition for the starting spot shifted when Pickett sustained a hamstring injury in practice. "I think, listen, I think there's worse timing," Flacco said after Monday's practice. "But at any point when you've been working so hard, you don't want to see something like that." Both Flacco and Pickett joined the Browns ahead of this NFL season and lead the depth chart ahead of rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. The Akron Beacon Journal initially reported that the second week of Browns training camp would include adjustments in the quarterback reps. Come Monday afternoon, Gabriel was filmed on the field during passing drills. With Pickett sidelined and Gabriel getting reps in, Sanders recently had an impressive showing late into the first week of training camp. ESPN's Daniel Oyefusi counted that Sanders had more scrimmage sets than Flacco throughout Week 1 of camp. Sanders was also filmed throwing touchdown passes over the defense in training. However, his reps had not come with the first-team offense. All four quarterbacks are fresh faces to the Browns locker room, apart from Flacco, who had a one-year stint with the Browns in 2023. Pickett joined Cleveland after two years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and a season with the Philadelphia Eagles. In his lone, Super Bowl-winning year with the Birds, Pickett made five appearances and completed 25 of 42 attempts for two touchdowns. Flacco's long career was mostly spent in Baltimore, where he was the signal caller for the Ravens for 11 years. He has since played for the Denver Broncos, New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts. The Browns had Deshaun Watson, Jameis Winston and Dorian Thompson-Robinson in the position just last season. They had a complete wipeout of their quarterbacks after a 3-14 season, starting with a season-ending Achilles tear for Watson in Week 7. He then re-ruptured his Achilles after rolling his ankle during the rehab process, putting his availability for 2025 in doubt. Watson's contract will count just under $36 million against the Browns' salary cap this season, per Spotrac. Despite Pickett's injury, the Browns have previously expressed they will not trade any of their quarterbacks. Cleveland will open their season on September 9 against the Cincinnati Bengals.
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2 days ago
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Report: Browns QB Kenny Pickett injured during practice
July 27 - Cleveland Browns quarterback Kenny Pickett reportedly went down with a hamstring injury during Saturday's training camp session, casting uncertainty over his early momentum in a crowded quarterback competition. Sources told ESPN that Pickett sustained the injury while rolling to his right and throwing a touchdown during the final red zone drill of the day. The severity of the injury remains unclear and the Browns reportedly expect to re-evaluate him later this week. Pickett had been making a strong case to become the Browns' starter, taking a majority of the first-team reps during the opening week of training camp. Browns quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave described his performance in the first two practices as "stellar," particularly praising his accuracy. Pickett's early success had seemingly put him ahead in the four-man competition, which includes veteran Joe Flacco and rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. The injury now opens the door for the remaining quarterbacks to gain valuable reps. Flacco, entering his 18th NFL season, has rotated with Pickett throughout camp and brings veteran leadership to the position group. Gabriel, a third-round pick out of Oregon, has had limited time with the first team, while Sanders, a fifth-round pick from Colorado, has yet to take any first-team snaps. Pickett, a 2022 first-round pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers, was traded to the Browns in March by the Philadelphia Eagles. Cleveland gave up a fifth-round pick and young quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson in the deal. With the Browns declining his fifth-year option, Pickett is set to become a free agent after the 2025 season. --Field Level Media
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4 days ago
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Cleveland Browns videos: Fans weigh in with season predictions and QB1 discussion
Cleveland Browns fans make season predictions and discuss the team's quarterback competition on Day 3 of training camp
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6 days ago
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Colts' Shane Steichen looking for consistantcy with Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones
Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen discusses the quarterback competition between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones.
Al Arabiya
6 days ago
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- Al Arabiya
Daniel jones, Anthony richardson begin competition to be colts starting qb
WESTFIELD, Ind. – Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson insists he's healthy. Daniel Jones embraces the chance to compete for a starting job. And coach Shane Steichen has a broad outline of how he intends to split the snaps over the next several weeks with no timetable to make a decision as the competition began in earnest at Indy's first training camp practice Wednesday. 'We'll have a maintenance plan for him (Richardson). We want him to get all the team reps, so you might not see him throw some individual reps every single day,' Steichen said. 'And just with the way the (team) reps are going to play out, those guys are going to get the same amount of reps, just like today. We'll flip both to get reps with the ones every day.' It's the second time in Steichen's three years with the Colts he's presided over a quarterback competition. The first ended after one preseason game in 2023 with Steichen selecting Richardson, then a rookie, the starter over Gardner Minshew. Perhaps that should have been expected, given Richardson was selected as the No. 4 overall pick in that year's draft and the Colts still searching for a long-term replacement following Andrew Luck's surprise retirement in August 2019. This time the plan seems different. In addition to splitting snaps with the starters at practice in Westfield, Indiana, a northwestern suburb of Indianapolis, general manager Chris Ballard said Tuesday he wants to see both quarterbacks in action against other teams. It remains to be seen if the scheduled joint practices against Baltimore and Green Bay can provide enough information to produce a decision or whether Richardson and Jones may play in the less controlled environment of preseason games. If first impressions suggest anything, there wasn't much difference on the field. Each struggled against Indy's defense, which knocked away multiple passes thrown by both in 11-on-11 drills. Jones also threw an interception on what he described as 'a bad decision' before throwing a pretty completion on a long ball to Anthony Gould near the end of practice. 'I think like any Day 1, there was some good, some bad,' Jones said. 'There are always things to clean up. We'll look back at the tape and then improve on it, but I thought for Day 1, we did a lot of things that you look for on Day 1.' Jones has been around long enough to understand expectations. The New York Giants made him the No. 6 overall draft pick in 2019. He became the starter in Week 3 of his rookie season and after struggling for three years, he led the Giants to the playoffs in 2022. New York rewarded Jones with a four-year $160 million contract, but Jones made only six starts in 2023 and threw eight TD passes and seven interceptions last season before he was released by New York and signed by Minnesota. Now he's back looking to start again. 'There's so much work to do, especially for me – learning the system, getting to know the guys, learning communication with the coaches,' Jones said. 'It's a long process. There's a lot of work ahead of us, but kind of the way you go about it is focusing on that day, that practice, that meeting or whatever at the moment.' Richardson's injury history, meanwhile, has limited him to just 15 starts over the past two seasons, and he missed the team's final minicamp practice because of a sore throwing shoulder. He also acknowledged he did not throw to his teammates when they worked out in California this summer. 'I had surgery a year and a half ago, so I've been dealing with on and off soreness with that,' Richardson said, noting he thought it was just a normal part of the recovery process. 'But it was something else, and I wouldn't necessarily worry about it. I was just trying to do what I could do to help the team.' Richardson also has struggled with accuracy, completing just 50.6 percent of his throws, including 47.7 percent last season when he had the lowest completion rate of any regular starter in the league. On Wednesday, though, Richardson pronounced himself healthy and ready to win yet another quarterback competition. 'Everybody wants success like right here, right now,' he said. 'There were definitely things I could have worked on last year, so I'm trying to improve on that and make sure I'm just available for the team whenever they need me.'
