Browns' Joe Flacco 'expecting' team to select quarterback in NFL Draft

Cleveland Browns backmost Joe Flacco whitethorn beryllium the Week 1 starter erstwhile the 2025 play begins if Deshaun Watson isn’t backmost successful clip to instrumentality the field.

With hours to spell earlier the NFL Draft begins, Flacco appeared connected "Fox & Friends" and was asked whether helium would beryllium disappointed oregon if helium was expecting Cleveland to instrumentality a backmost successful the draft.

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Quarterback Joe Flacco throws the shot against the Chicago Bears astatine Cleveland Browns Stadium connected Dec. 17, 2023. (Scott Galvin-USA Today Sports)

"I’m expecting, I deliberation everyone’s expecting them to instrumentality a backmost and it’s conscionable portion of the game," Flacco said. "Every squad is looking to get that adjacent feline and marque their squad arsenic bully arsenic imaginable for the aboriginal and that’s portion of it."

Cam Ward, Shedeur Sanders and Jaxson Dart person been the most-talked-about quarterbacks successful the draught excavation coming into the event. Flacco didn't specify erstwhile helium thought the Browns would instrumentality it.

Ward is each but a fastener to spell to the Tennessee Titans, who person the No. 1 pick. The Browns person the No. 2 enactment and could extremity up with Shedeur Sanders. The Fox News Digital mock draught predicted the Browns taking Heisman Trophy victor Travis Hunter.

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Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders talks with backmost Shedeur Sanders during a timeout successful the crippled against Central Florida, Sept. 28, 2024, successful Orlando. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Flacco admitted he’s not precisely watching portion of immoderate of the incoming rookies.

"I don’t get overmuch of a accidental to look astatine these guys. Man, astatine 40 years aged and with young kids myself, I’m not sitting connected the sofa connected Saturdays arsenic often watching assemblage football," helium said. "I cognize a batch goes into looking astatine these guys and, for immoderate reason, you ne'er rather cognize if you’re gonna deed oregon not. But these guys person enactment successful a batch of enactment to get wherever they are. They merit a batch of respect for doing that."

Flacco was the No. 18 prime of the 2008 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens.

He led the Ravens to a Super Bowl successful 2012. Once his clip with the Ravens was over, helium played for the Denver Broncos, New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts. He is successful his 2nd stint with the Browns.

Cleveland Browns backmost Joe Flacco throws the shot successful the AFC wild-card crippled against the Texans astatine NRG Stadium successful Houston, Jan. 13, 2024. (Troy Taormina-USA Today Sports)

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Flacco has 257 vocation touchdown passes and 45,697 yards.

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