{"id":256959,"date":"2026-08-10T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/browns-qb-competition-might-not-be-a-competition-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:10:05","slug":"browns-qb-competition-might-not-be-a-competition-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/browns-qb-competition-might-not-be-a-competition-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns&#8217; QB competition might not be a competition anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland_browns\/34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> head coach Todd Monken was in no rush to name a starting quarterback in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>He had Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders split first-team reps at OTAs and through the first nine days of training camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, it looks like something has changed. On a day when Sanders was supposed to handle the bulk of the reps, and right after Monken told the media that would be the case, Watson got the nod.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN insider Daniel Oyefusi, Sanders had to settle for a handful of second-team reps instead.<\/p>\n<h2>Deshaun Watson might be the Browns&#8217; QB1<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Day 10 of Browns training camp is over. On a day when Shedeur Sanders was scheduled to practice with the starting offense, Deshaun Watson took every rep with the No. 1 unit,&#8221; Oyefusi shared on X. &#8220;Sanders split the remaining reps with Dillon Gabriel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/browns_qb_competition_might_not_be_a_competition_anymore\/s1_13132_44155445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken was in no rush to name a starting quarterback in the spring. He had Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders split first-team reps at OTAs and through the first nine days of training camp.\u00a0 Now, it looks like something has changed. On a day when Sanders was supposed to handle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}