By Sam Robinson Hoping to play a 16th season, Joe Flacco expressed interest in another contract with the Jets after the team lost Aaron Rodgers.
While the Jets declined and ultimately only added Trevor Siemian following Rodgers’ Achilles injury, Flacco remained a free agent until last week.
He is now on the No. 5 team, signing with the Browns shortly after the Week 11 game.There could be some early work to do for the 38-year-old passer.
Even though the Browns turned to P.J. after Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s concussion in Week 12. Walker – their primary replacement for Deshaun Watson this season – should have moved Flacco to the reserve role.
This has happened before, with Kevin Stefanski hinting that Flacco passed Walker and found himself in the QB2 spot for the 7-4 team.
This funding is currently of greater importance.
Thompson-Robinson, who started the Browns’ last two games, remains in concussion protocol following the hit he took from Broncos fullback Baron Browning. Flacco was inactive for this game, having arrived in Cleveland a few days earlier.
The Browns saw enough to demote Walker.
While the Browns managed to go 2-1 with Walker as their primary QB this season, he completed less than 49% of his passes and left Denver with a 1-5 TD-INT ratio.
If Thompson-Robinson remains in the concussion protocol for the Browns’ Week 13 game against the Rams, Flacco would be on track to become Cleveland’s fourth starting QB this season and 37th (along with Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com ) since the franchise reboot. in 1999. Flacco has faced the Browns 21 times from 2008 to 2022.
The former Ravens starter’s most recent appearance in Cleveland helped the Jets earn a come-from-behind victory in a Week 2 game in which Flacco threw for 307 yards and four touchdowns.Flacco has made 180 career starts.
The 2008 first-round pick, best known for a 12-year career with the Ravens during which he earned MVP honors in Super Bowl XLVII, also started for the Broncos and Jets.
Last season in New York, Flacco got the call to start the season in place of the injured Zach Wilson. The veteran ultimately made four starts, including Week 18.
He finished the year with 1,051 yards, a 5:3 TD-INT ratio and a 57.1% completion rate, just 5.5 yards per attempt.AdvertisementThis development marks another QB2 change for the Browns.
The team re-signed Josh Dobbs to back up Watson, but traded the veteran to the Cardinals and saw a lot of progress from Thompson-Robinson in his first training camp.
Cleveland then demoted Thompson-Robinson after a woeful first start, coming on short notice against a strong Ravens defense in Week 4, for Walker — a late-summer pickup after the Dobbs trade.
The hierarchy is now DTR-Flacco-Walker, with Thompson-Robinson already in all three spots on Cleveland’s depth chart.
