The Cleveland Browns is not going to be maintaining 4 quarterbacks on their roster heading into the 2025 common season, in any case.
The Browns agreed to a deal on Monday to commerce Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders, in line with a number of stories. Cleveland will obtain a 2026 fifth-round draft choose in return.
Pickett spent simply 5 months in Cleveland, because the Browns acquired him in a commerce with the Philadelphia Eagles again in March. They gave up Dorian Thompson-Robinson and a fifth-round draft choose in that deal.
There had been stories all through the summer season that Pickett was not exactly lighting it up in Browns camp. Joe Flacco has been named Cleveland’s Week 1 starter, so rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders will now again the 40-year-old up.
The Raiders wanted a veteran quarterback after Aidan O’Connell fractured his wrist within the crew’s preseason finale over the weekend. O’Connell is anticipated to be sidelined for around two months.
Pickett started his profession with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who drafted him twentieth general in 2022. The previous College of Pittsburgh QB started 12 games as a rookie and didn’t play effectively, ending with 2,404 yards, seven landing passes and 9 interceptions. Pickett began one other 12 video games for the Steelers in 2023 earlier than being benched and later traded to Philadelphia.
In whole, Pickett has accomplished 62.4 % of his profession passes for 4,765 yards, 15 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
