BEREA, OHIO – JUNE 11: Shedeur Sanders #2 of the Cleveland Browns laughs with Deshaun Watson #4 throughout the Cleveland Browns Obligatory Minicamp at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on June 11, 2026 in Berea, Ohio. (Photograph by Nick Cammett/Diamond Photos through Getty Photos) | Diamond Photos/Getty Photos
The Cleveland Browns are simply 4 days into their newest, however removed from biggest, quarterback coaching camp battle with no clear winner in the mean time.
That isn’t fully unsurprising for many who have been following alongside as first-time head coach Todd Monken has to decide on between a damaged and ineffective quarterback whose final good season got here in 2020, and a former fifth-round draft choose who posted one of many worst rookie seasons previously 25 years.
Monken is drawing out the choice so long as he presumably can, or, maybe extra precisely, delaying the general public announcement till the workforce has a couple of extra practices to substantiate what he has already decided to be the proper plan of action.
It could nonetheless be some time till Monken publicizes who the starter will likely be, as he defined on Saturday:
“I don’t suppose you’re actually going to know till you get by all of the installs, as a result of we’re not sport planning towards our personal protection. Every day has been a unique a part of the go sport, so it’s exhausting to essentially [tell]. And someday you go along with those, the opposite day you go along with the twos; actually that matchup goes to be totally different relying on who you’re going towards.
“I think the most important thing is, from a process standpoint, how are we operating at the line of scrimmage, where are their eyes, have they taken command of the huddle, and then cadence, and then understanding the concepts. I think they’re all doing well; they’re all fine. All of our players are working through mistakes and fighting like hell to get better.”
On the one hand, it will be good if Monken simply introduced a choice and everybody might transfer on to getting ready for the season opener in Jacksonville. Then again, neither Deshaun Watson nor Shedeur Sanders is prone to be the reply past this season, so what’s a couple of extra days or perhaps weeks of ready actually going to harm?
The followers and media are usually not the one ones watching the competitors, in fact, as the remainder of the workforce is protecting tabs on what is going on on the apply discipline and forming their very own opinions on what the suitable name could be.
And the “word in the locker room” is that the perfect quarterback on the Browns proper now shouldn’t be named Watson or Sanders.
That’s in keeping with Breiden Fehoko, a former defensive lineman who performed three years within the NFL with the Los Angeles Chargers and is now host of The Fehoko Present on X:
Don’t shoot the messenger. Phrase within the Cleveland Browns locker room is the perfect quarterback isn’t Deshaun or Shedeur proper now……👀
— Breiden Fehoko (@BreidenFehoko) August 2, 2026
Fehoko doesn’t reveal who dropped that phrase in his ear or who the locker room believes is the perfect quarterback in the mean time. The one different selections are Taylen Inexperienced, a rookie sixth-round draft alternative, or Dillon Gabriel, a second-year quarterback who simply so occurs to share a house state with Fehoko.
The Browns are off as we speak and may have their first apply in pads on Monday, offering Monken with extra to think about as he ponders the beginning quarterback for the season.
Whether or not or not his alternative aligns with the locker room or Fehoko’s private alternative stays to be seen.
