The race for the Browns' starting quarterback job just began, but Joe Flacco appears to take the lead over Sanders, Gabriel, and Pickett.

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The Cleveland Browns have a wide variety in the quarterback room this offseason. In the wake of yet another Deshaun Watson injury, general manager Andrew Berry brought in two veterans, Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, and then drafted two young quarterbacks in Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.

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Pickett, turning 27 on Friday, heads into the four-way competition with Flacco, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders as the early frontrunner, based in part on the Browns’ targeting him right out of the gate in March, and their effusive praise of him since then.