When will the Browns choose a quarterback? Andrew Berry announces a cut is likely

Cleveland Browns GM Andrew Berry doesn't plan on keeping every quarterback currently on the roster.

When will the Browns choose a quarterback? Andrew Berry announces a cut is likely originally appeared on The Sporting News

The Cleveland Browns are set to announce a starting quarterback ahead of the team’s Preseason Week 3 finale against the Los Angeles Rams at Huntington Bank Field next Saturday.

It’ll be the only home game of the preseason, and it’ll be a chance for the QB1 to take the field with the powers that be and the locker room officially behind him. The exhibition will be a dry run for what will assuredly be a roller coaster season.

While there’s no concrete evidence yet on who will be named, Joe Flacco’s healthy scratch from the prior two games is a good sign that he has assurances to start. The two players who did play, Shedeur Sanders against the Carolina Panthers and Dillon Gabriel against the Philadelphia Eagles, didn’t impress enough to get QB1 consideration, by most accounts.

Kenny Pickett may be on the chopping block if recent results are any indication. He’s the one QB who hasn’t seen the field. Tyler Huntley, too, since he was signed as a preseason fill-in.

General manager Andrew Berry sounded likely to move on from someone in some way, shape, or form.

“I think we’ll let it play out as we get closer to the cut down. Those are all conversations that we are always having, but those are tough decisions. You know, I’d like to keep everybody, but not realistic,” Berry said.

Cutting Sanders would be upsetting to the culture. Cleveland has embraced the “Grown QB,” and the firestorm Deion Sanders would create if his son were released would be cataclysmic. Berry is likely too big a fan of Sanders for that to happen.

Cutting Gabriel would be admitting failure on a third-round draft pick less than six months into taking him. That’d be catastrophic for Berry. Head coach Kevin Stefanski and Jimmy Haslam are too big of Gabriel fans to let this possibility even be mentioned again.

Pickett and Huntley are the likely goners from the looks of it. If Berry holds onto four QBs, Huntley is the definite odd man out.

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