Browns Name Rookie Dillon Gabriel 41st Starting QB for London Game
The decision reflects a decades-long struggle to stabilize the position since the franchise's 1999 return.
Overview
- Cleveland benched veteran Joe Flacco after a 1-3 start to the 2025 season.
- Gabriel is scheduled to start against the Minnesota Vikings in London on Sunday morning.
- The Browns' expansion-era total of different starters is the NFL's highest at 41.
- NBC Sports reports Cleveland has had 11 more starting quarterbacks than the next team in that span, with the Bears at 30.
- According to NBC Sports, the last 16 Browns quarterbacks who made their first NFL starts with the team lost their debuts, with Eric Zeier the last to win his first start in 1996.