Browns wide receiver Diontae Johnson predicts Kenny Pickett will get first shot as team’s starting QB
Cleveland’s Browns have a quarter-back quarter competition during the offseason, with a recruits pair, the Super Bowl champions aid from last season and a 40-year-old veteran who has already saved the franchise once as a return player of the year of the NFL in 2023.
With Deshaun Watson who always recovered from the tear of Achilles which he suffered last January, the spotlights are on Dillon Gabriel, Sheder Sanders, Kenny Pickett and Joe Flacco.
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The wide receiver Diontae Johnson, a Bowler Pro player who signed with the Browns this spring, has a prediction for which the quarterrier will come out in mind this summer.
“I think they will ride with Kenny at the moment,” said Johnson, appearing on the “Sports and follows” podcast earlier this month.
“I saw Kenny take place right now with those. Then Joe will arrive,” said Johnson. “I think they will probably ride with [Kenny] Just to see as if he comes out of a season with Philly and having a super bowl. So, I think they will stay with him during the pre-season. Then you know they can live with Joe and what it brings to the table. “”
Johnson hopes to turn the page after a campaign in 2024 which was memorable for all the bad reasons. He shared time with three teams: the Carolina Panthers, the Ravens of Baltimore and the Texans of Houston. He made the headlines during his second stop when the Ravens suspended a match for him for refusing to enter a game of the week 13 against the Eagles of Philadelphia.
Johnson’s best days came to Pittsburgh, where he spent 2019-23.
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Johnson and Pickett were teammates of the Steelers for two seasons from 2022-2010. During this period, Pickett went 14-10 as a starter, and Johnson caught a total of 137 assists for 1,599 yards and five affected.
The Steelers drafted Pickett from the University of Pittsburgh with the overall choice n ° 20 in the 2022 draft. Pickett had the first chance to succeed a new Ben Roethlisberger, but, despite his victories record, posted a meager ratio of touching 13:13 in his two seasons as QB1.
Pittsburgh went from Pickett before the 2024 season, exchanging it to the Eagles of Philadelphia this offseason. The Steelers, on the other hand, entered last season with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields in their quarter room, which is not always with the team.
Pickett supported the star of the Eagles Jalen Hurts, appearing in five games during a Super Bowl season. It made 25 passes out of 42 (59.5%) while recording 291 yards in the air, two affected and interception. He won his only start to the season, a 41-7 Dubbing of the RFC East Rival Dallas Cowboys.
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Pickett was even able to take the ground in the Super Bowl, working for snapshots of waste during the Eagles victory over the Kansas City chiefs.
He took his ring with him to Cleveland in March when the Browns exchanged for him in exchange for the Dorian Thompson-Robinson quarter and the choice of fifth round in 2025 that Cleveland had acquired Detroit.
Pickett is only 27 years old. It could be the next in an increasingly long line of old first round quarters which have succeeded in the second and third acts of their NFL career.
But for Johnson’s summer prediction to be realized, Pickett will have to beat a still armed flakco, plus a finalist in the 2024 Heisman trophy in Gabriel as well as Sanders, the offensive player of the year Big 12 of last year.
