In Cleveland there are four candidates for Marshal and all have the possibility of being the headline.
Berea, Ohio – what could be the Battle for more exciting positions and full of NFL Start seriously on Wednesday.
The veterans of the Cleveland Browns They appeared on Tuesday for the beginning of the Training camp And soon the Field Marshal Competition Cleveland. While the field marshal Deshaun Watson It remains on a right Achilles tendon injury that placed it in the list of incapacitated to play (PUP) and is expected to keep it out for most of the 2025 season, four players –Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel y Shedeur Sanders– They will compete for being the seafarence of the titular field of the Browns This fall.
Cleveland carried out an intense training program during the preseason that often consisted of dividing the offensive into two fields to maximize the practice repetitions of each field marshal. The coach Kevin Stefanski He warned against the exaggerated interpretation of the order of repetitions during spring (all, except Sanders, participated in the first offensive team), but acknowledged that the training camp will focus on the preparation for the season, instead of the installation and training of the offensive.
Los Browns They will have a couple of joint practices with the Carolina Panthers and the Philadelphia Eaglesas well as three preseason games, to determine the field marshal that is more appropriate to operate the offensive and help change the course of the team after a 3-14 end last season.
Here the position of each field marshal is shown at the beginning of the training camp.
Joe Flacco
Joe Flaccothe undisputed veteran of the Marshal League, begins its 18th season at the NFL at 40 years for a second stage in Cleveland. The first came during a five -game streak at the end of the 2023 season, when it helped the Browns Upon returning to the playoffs and then he was appointed player return of the year.
This spring, Flacco had the least amount of repetitions in the media open training, but Stefanski said that was intentional, given his experience and familiarity with the offensive. During the preseason training program, Flacco commented that much of the offensive plays book is similar to when I was in Cleveland during the 2023 season.
Despite the previous relationship, Flacco said they did not guarantee a position as a holder when he signed a contract for one year and 4 million dollars in April.
“Joe has the physical ability to throw the ball,” Stefanski said in May. “It seems to me that it remains the same.”
In its five regular seasonal ownership in Cleveland Two seasons ago, Flacco led the Browns to a record of 4-1 and launched for more than 300 yards in four consecutive victories. Its powerful arm and ease of pushing the down field could help to boost an air game that occupied the 22nd position in yards per game (206.2).
However, Flacco will have to take better care of the ball if he plays this season. His eight interceptions during those five titles matched the most in the NFL in that period, and launched a couple of interceptions for touchdown in the defeat of the Browns In the Commodines Round before the Houston Texans.
Kenny Pickett
Kenny Pickettthe number 20 of the 2022 Draft, is in its third team in four seasons and seeks to recover its career, as well as Sam Darnold, Geno Smith y Baker Mayfield. Both were high selections of the draft that failed with their original teams and achieved success in other teams.
While Pickett has not been full -time starting since his second and last season with the Pittsburgh Steelershe was a player in which Browns They were interested since their university days at the University of Pittsburgh.
Cleveland He entered an uncertain preseason with the need to renew its field marshal template and looked for Picktt as an objective of exchange. The Browns They sent a selection of fifth round and the field marshal Dorian Thompson-Robinson To acquire Picktt from the Eagles in March.
“We believe that it makes good decisions and that it protects the ball very well. It is very agile, and we believe that its strengths adapt well to the offensive we are implementing for this year,” said the general manager of the Browns, Andrew Berryat the meeting of owners at the end of March. “We believe it has a rather credible path to continue improving and advance, and I think we have seen it with players who are in new or, sometimes even better for their professional career.”
Pickett and Gabriel received the most repetitions with the first offensive team in open training for the press. With the presence of two rookie quarterbacks in the template, it is plausible that Browns Keep only one of your veterans for autumn.
Cleveland He chose not to exercise the fifth year of Picktt, which means that he will play the last year of his rookie contract with a fully guaranteed salary of $ 2.62 million. The similar salary space dedicated to both Picktt and Flacco means that there will be no great financial gains when cutting one of them instead of the other and may not significantly influence decision -making.
While Flacco is the most experienced (and perhaps the most appropriate option to solve the problem), Picytt's mobility and its perceived potential could give it the advantage in the training field.
Dillon Gabriel
Los Browns many surprised to select Dillon Gabriel In the third round of the April Draft, but it was a player who impressed them a lot during the process prior to the Draft.
Berry praised Gabriel's “complete game” and his extensive university career, in which he played with several main coaches and in various systems, during their stays at the UCF, Oklahoma and Oregon. And the Browns They did not consider that the height of 1.80 meters from Gabriel was an obstacle to its success in the NFL.
“Find how to do it. And that is fundamental,” said Stefanski. “There are field seafood of different shapes and sizes. You have to know how to move in the protection bag. You have to feel the bag, find the launch lines, change the angles of the arm. All that is innate, I believe, in the players, based on how they have played the sport all their life.”
Gabriel received a lot of repetitions with the first team during the preseason training program. Despite Stefanski's warning, not to draw conclusions based on practice repetitions, their status in the draft and their work with the headlines suggest that the Browns They believe he has a path to play from the beginning.
Shedeur Sanders
Although it was once believed that Shedeur Sanders He was one of the best field marshals of the Draft, surprisingly fell to the fifth round, where the Browns They selected it 144. Now in ClevelandSanders, son of the member of the Hall of Fame of Professional Football Deion Sandersapparently faces a uphill battle in a crowded marshal room.
Sanders did not play a single SNAP with the first team in a training open to the press. When asking for an explanation, Stefanski said: “We are in the installation and training phase, so there is not much to analyze.”
Los Browns They have been impressed with Sanders, both in the countryside and inside the building, but did it do enough in the spring to get practice time with the headlines?
Even if Sanders continues to work with and against the second team, his performance in the training field and in the preseason will be important to possibly ensure a role of superior substitute during the regular season.
“He has worked hard,” said the offensive coordinator Tommy Rees In June. “He is working a lot, like all those boys. But it showed in the mentality of the game, to learn the system, in decisions and to have that rhythm. He has dedicated a lot of time and effort to that, and when you do, the game begins to lower the rhythm and you can concentrate on completing passes. And it has done very well as the camp has advanced.”
