The Cleveland Browns are rolling into the 2025 season with more questions than answers at the quarterback position. However, for the first time in a while it’s not due to lack of talent. Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillion Gabriel, and Shedeur Sanders make for a quarterback room with both experience and untapped talent.
Today, Cleveland signed one of those quarterbacks to a huge deal.
Breaking: Browns Sign QB That’s Not Shedeur Sanders To Big-Time Deal
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter:
Browns rookie third-round QB Dillon Gabriel now has signed his four-year contract:
Browns rookie third-round QB Dillon Gabriel now has signed his four-year contract: pic.twitter.com/nyZ0Wn4SZt
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 4, 2025
Per NBC Sports:
Gabriel was the 94th overall pick in the 2025 draft. He played at UCF, Oklahoma, and Oregon, starting 63 total games at the college level. He threw for 18,722 yards and went 46-17.
It remains to be seen where he lands on the depth chart for 2025. Assuming Watson doesn’t play (and he could be determined to give it a go), one of the four will be gone before Week 1 — and possibly before training camp. That likely won’t be Gabriel, whose status as a top-100 pick will ensure that he gets a more-than-fair chance to shine.
And he could perform well enough to become the Week 1 starter for a team that has been desperately searching for a year-in and year-out starter ever since the franchise returned to the NFL in 1999
Here is a look at Gabriel’s college stats:
| Season | Team | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | |||
| 2019 | UCF | 13 | 12 | 9–3 | 236 | 398 | 59.3 | 3,653 | 9.2 | 29 | 7 | 156.9 | 71 | 78 | 1.1 | 4 | |
| 2020 | UCF | 10 | 10 | 6–4 | 248 | 413 | 60.0 | 3,570 | 8.6 | 32 | 4 | 156.3 | 72 | 169 | 2.3 | 2 | |
| 2021 | UCF | 3 | 3 | 2–1 | 70 | 102 | 68.6 | 814 | 8.0 | 9 | 3 | 159.2 | 24 | 125 | 5.2 | 2 | |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | 12 | 12 | 6–6 | 230 | 367 | 62.7 | 3,168 | 8.6 | 25 | 6 | 154.4 | 89 | 315 | 3.5 | 6 | |
| 2023 | Oklahoma | 12 | 12 | 10–2 | 266 | 384 | 69.3 | 3,660 | 9.5 | 30 | 6 | 172.0 | 93 | 373 | 4.0 | 12 | |
| 2024 | Oregon | 14 | 14 | 13–1 | 326 | 447 | 72.9 | 3,857 | 8.6 | 30 | 6 | 164.9 | 75 | 149 | 2.0 | 7 | |
| Career | 64 | 63 | 46–17 | 1,376 | 2,111 | 65.2 | 18,722 | 8.9 | 155 | 32 | 160.9 | 424 | 1,209 | 2.9 | 33 | ||
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