The Cleveland Browns signed on Friday the most valuable player of the Super Bowl XLVII, Joe Flaccoquarterback the 40 yearsfor the 2025 season of the NFL. Flacco, who will earn four million dollars In the Browns, it joins the former Pittsburgh Steelers, Kenny Pickett, As a candidate to replace Deshaun Watson, who recovers from a second surgery due to Achilles tendon breakage.
The veteran born in Audubon, New Jersey, knows the coach system perfectly Kevin Stefanski In Cleveland, team in which he was in the campaign 2023in which he accumulated a record of four wins and a defeat.
Joe Flacco's path in the NFL
He started his career recruited in the first round of the 2008 draft by the Baltimore Ravens, a team to which he guided Triumph over San Francisco 49ers at the Super Bowl XLVIIedition in which he was also appointed more valuable player.
He left the Ravens in 2018. He signed with Denver Broncos in 2019, in 2020 he played for the New York Jets, a campaign later was with Philadelphia Eagleshalf season he returned to the Jets, which he left in 2022 to have his first stage with Cleveland in 2023, season in which he was appointed player return of the year. The last campaign was in the Indianapolis Colts.
In 17 seasons, the veteran has passed for 45,697 yards, 257 scores and has suffered 162 interceptions.
With the hiring of Flacco, LOS Browns seek experience and stability In a position that in the words of Jimmy Haslam, owner of the team, is in a quagmire since they hired Deshaun Watson in 2022 with a contract of 230 million dollars.
“We fail with Deshaun. We thought we had correct quartback, but it was not. So now we have to get out of that quagmire. It was a decision of the entire organization and we have to accept that responsibility, “said Haslam.
Watson, who accumulated in previous years more than twenty demands for inappropriate sexual behavior, most of which resolved with confidential agreements, has been a headache since he arrived in Browns due to his constant injuries.
