A father of five children ages 8 to almost 13, Flacco famously joked in 2023 here that if he had messed up in high school, he could be the father of some of his teammates. So it is with the current quarterback competition, in which he’ll try to beat out Kenny Pickett, 26, and rookies Dillon Gabriel, 24 and Sanders, 23.

Kenny Pickett realizes that almost all the offseason attention devoted to the Cleveland Browns is on the quarterback competition.