Whereas the ink nonetheless isn’t dry on Joe Flacco‘s contract with the Browns, there’s already hypothesis that the veteran might not make it to the common season along with his new squad. In accordance with Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, Joe Flacco is probably going the odd man out within the Browns quarterbacks room.
The staff’s positional depth has clearly modified a bit since Flacco inked a take care of Cleveland in early April. The Browns added a pair of big-name rookies by way of the draft, and it sounds just like the staff is dedicated to giving roster spots to each third-round decide Dillon Gabriel and stunning fifth-round decide Shedeur Sanders.
Because the Browns navigated Deshaun Watson‘s damage and tenuous standing on their squad, the staff went out and made a commerce for Kenny Pickett earlier this offseason. Cabot believes the previous first-round decide is in prime place to retain his roster spot, and that would depart Flacco on the skin trying in.
The staff would certainly solely commit three roster spots to the quarterback place, however Cabot says the staff may grasp on to 4 QBs for the primary iteration of their 53-man roster. The staff did one thing comparable final yr, once they stored Tyler Huntley with the hopes of a commerce popping up. A deal by no means got here to fruition, and the group moved on from Huntley earlier than Week 1.
It’s exhausting to examine a protracted line of suitors for Flacco. That has nothing to do along with his high quality of play — even throughout his age-39 season, Flacco gained a pair of video games whereas tossing 12 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Quite, groups will possible be cognizant of Flacco’s spot on Cleveland’s roster, and so they could wait out an inevitable launch if they honestly have curiosity within the veteran.
On the flip facet, Flacco may merely play himself into a job, probably resulting in a difficult scenario for the Browns. The probably path would see them transfer on from Pickett, but when each vets are really deserving of a spot, then it wouldn’t be out of the realm of risk for them to ditch a draft decide or attempt to sneak a rookie onto their observe squad.
In the meantime, we’ve lastly gotten some particulars on Flacco’s contract (via OverTheCap.com). His one-year, $4M pact contains $3M in assured cash, though a bit of that complete is tied to roster bonuses that could possibly be prevented. Flacco can also be hooked up to a $2.85M cap hit, and the Browns can be left with half of that on the books in the event that they outright launched the quarterback.
