Cleveland Browns quarterrier, Joe Flacco (15) launched Kenny Pickett during NFL football training on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Berea, Ohio. (AP photo / long phil)
Berea, Ohio (AP) – Kenny Pickett realizes that almost all the attention of the off -season dedicated to Cleveland’s Browns is on the quarter -Arrière competition.
Pickett wants to understand something clearly clearly – even if it’s a competition, things are not heated in the quarter -back room.
“I think the outside world makes it much larger than it is. Of course, we are all in competition, but you become friends with everyone,” said Pickett on Wednesday after the Browns finished their second day of organized team activities.
“I think it’s an excellent media title, but when you get into the building in a quarter room and at least everyone in which I have been, you really become friends with these guys, and we just push ourselves.”
Pickett and Joe Flacco obtained the majority of the clichés with the veterans. The choice of third round, Dillon Gabriel, obtained a series of exercises of 11 against 11 on the main field, while the selection of fifth round Sheder Sanders did not.
Gabriel and Sanders obtained most of their work with other recruits on the adjacent field.
Even if he is 40 years old, Flacco is the light favorite to be under the center when the Browns welcome the Bengals of Cincinnati on September 7 when the season was opened.
“It’s funny, it’s like every time I go here during the offseason, I have done it a million times, but it is as if there was a little piece of you that is like” it is therefore good to come back there and start again to start again, “said Flacco, the AP Comeback player of the year in 2023, after having gone 4-1 their return in 1999.
Even if Flacco said that it was the first quarter competition of this magnitude that he has known since he was a second year student at the Lycée in Audubon, New Jersey, he did not focus too much at this stadium of the offseason.
“I’m right there and do what I do, and everything else is sort of control. So, everything I can do is go there and play football and that’s what I do,” said Flacco.
The Browns acquired Pickett in a business with Philadelphia when the year of the league opened its doors in March. Pickett started a match last season for the Super Bowl Eagles champion while winning Jalen Hurts. He had 14-10 as leaving in two years with Pittsburgh after being the choice of the Steelers in the first round in 2022.
Pickett admitted that there were more similarities between the offenses of Eagles and Browns than most people think. The most important thing he focused on is to get aware of terminology.
“I think it went well. They do an excellent job so that everyone has experience with the offense and has an idea of everyone,” he said.
Pickett and Flacco both developed a good relationship with Jerry Jeudy. The sixth -year receiver had one of the best catches of the day on a deep road in Flacco during one of the first games during the 11 years against 11.
“It was good. I don’t think there are many abandoned bullets,” said Jeudy. “The quarter-backs therefore put balls directly on money and the receivers made games. We will continue to do it.”
Gabriel had a tip pass on the melee line and chosen by the choice of first round Mason Graham. Gabriel and Sanders behaved well in exercises of 7 against recruits.
Coach Kevin Stefanski said all the clichés of recruits remain precious, whether on or off the field.
“They are classified with each game. And there are a variety of things on which they are classified, but for the quarter, decision-making, technique, precision, this type of thing,” he said. “We like the opportunity to be here on the practice field and have two exercises where we can maximize all the time that we are here.”
The absence of Garrett
There were two notable absences during the voluntary practice on Wednesday. The defensive winger Myles Garrett is in Japan and accompanied the Olympic gold medalist of the Snowboard Chloé Kim to the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Stefanski said he didn’t know if Garrett would be back with the team before the mini-camp compulsory on June 10.
The wide receiver Diontae Johnson, who signed with the team on May 5, could be the largest non-presentation because the Browns are his fourth team in less than a year.
“I’m worried about daily, but let me reiterate, it’s a voluntary program through the NFL guys,” said Stefanski. “It is their right, whether or not here. The guys who are here, we train them. The guys who are not there, it is completely their decision to make. »»
