Browns GM Andrew Berry hints at Shedeur Sanders future, keeping 4 QBs on the roster

The Cleveland Browns are prepared to keep four quarterbacks on their roster entering the 2025 season, ESPN reported. The deadline for NFL teams to cut their rosters down to 53 players is coming up at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

The Browns played their preseason finale on Saturday against the Los Angeles Rams and now will have to make some tough decisions. But according to general manager Andrew Berry, the quarterback position isn’t one of them.

“Honestly, it’s not much of a decision for us,” Berry said Saturday on NFL Network. “…We have a room that we like all the guys in there. We don’t really see that as a problem. We more see it as an opportunity.”

The Browns are set to enter the season with veteran Joe Flacco as their starting quarterback. They also drafted a pair of rookies in Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel. They also have former first-round pick Kenny Pickett, who is getting ready to enter his fourth NFL season.

Flacco got the start on Saturday and finished 9-of-10 passing for 71 yards and a touchdown in the 19-17 win. But while he has already locked up the starting job for Week 1, the battle behind him between Sanders and Gabriel is what had caused the most headlines.

So far this preseason, Gabriel is 25-of-37 passing for 272 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Sanders is 17-of-29 passing for 152 yards and two touchdowns. Pickett has not played as he is dealing with a hamstring injury.

There’s been a lot of eyes on Sanders, who was projected as high as a first-round pick in the draft before falling to the fifth round. But Berry likes what he has in the rookie and the rest of the Browns quarterback room, and said he believes the right move for the team is to stick it out with all.

“We’ve largely looked at the last five spots of a roster as more developmental spots, and that can come from any position,” Berry said. “I also think with the roster flexibility nowadays, especially with the elevations that you’re able to have on the practice squad, there’s just more flexibility in terms of how to build your 48-man game-day roster where it’s maybe not as quite as restrictive in the past.

“Now, that being said, when roster rules were more, let’s say, draconian, there have been teams that have carried four. So, if there are four that are 53-man worthy, we think it makes the most sense for us to keep them.”