Former Browns’ legend challenges QB’s after great 2026 NFL Draft
Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry has high praise for the Cleveland Browns’ 2026 NFL Draft class.
“Cleveland has been dying to have a winning football team for as long as I’ve been there,” former Browns fan favorite Jarvis Landry said on his podcast, 4th and South, with co-host Leonard Fournette.
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These two must have discovered that whenever they talk about the Browns, they get great ratings because Cleveland seems to be a weekly headlining topic on the show. Frankly, Browns fans love hearing Landry’s opinion on the team because he was one of the main reasons Cleveland changed their culture when he was here.
In this week’s episode, Landry was discussing the Cleveland draft and, much to my surprise, he wasn’t talking about the two wide receivers drafted by the Browns; he was talking about the offensive tackle they grabbed with the ninth overall pick.
Looking at Landry’s response to the Browns draft
The Browns selected Spencer Fano with their first overall draft pick after some masterful moves at the top of the first round. Cleveland nabbed Fano and picked up two additional draft picks in the process. It was the worst kept secret in all of football that the Browns were going to use a tackle and a wide receiver in the draft.
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They got their top offensive lineman target and two of their top five wide receiver targets to boot. They dominated the draft and caught Landry’s attention.
Landry went on to say that no quarterback can be successful if the guys in front of him aren’t doing their job. For many reasons, the Browns offense and offensive line have been a disaster over Kevin Stefanski’s last two years in Cleveland, most notably last year.
This essentially gave each of the quarterbacks, Deshaun Watson, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, no real opportunity to succeed. Landry then listed all of Fano’s accomplishments during his senior year at Utah, then dropped the gavel. He challenged Sanders and Watson to prove who deserves to be the quarterback.
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These two have an incredibly important season ahead of them. Watson is fighting for his football life, and in some ways, so is Sanders. Whoever wins the job desperately needs to succeed this season, and the Cleveland fan base needs it.
There will be no excuses this year. The offensive line is improved even before the draft, the wide receivers room is significantly improved, the running backs room is healthy and a year older, and the tight ends room is improved as well. The tools are there, but which quarterback will benefit from them?
It’s only a matter of time before we have our answer.
This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Former Browns legend challenges QBs after stellar 2026 NFL Draft
