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Daniel Oyefusi
BEREA, Ohio — There isn’t a timetable on a return for Cleveland Browns quarterback Kenny Pickett, who injured a hamstring late in Saturday’s observe, coach Kevin Stefanski mentioned Monday.
Within the meantime, Joe Flacco will obtain the vast majority of first-team reps as Cleveland’s place battle enters the second week of coaching camp.
“I haven’t got a timeline,” Stefanski mentioned earlier than the Browns’ first padded observe. “With one thing like this, we’ll see the way it goes. However his mindset, my mindset, we’ll simply go day-to-day.”
Stefanski mentioned he knew Pickett harm a hamstring when he left the observe subject Saturday, and an MRI later confirmed the severity of the damage. Sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday that Pickett is predicted to be reevaluated later this week. Pickett and Flacco cut up the majority of first-team reps within the first week of coaching camp, whereas rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders primarily led the second- and third-team offenses.
Previous to Pickett’s damage, Stefanski mentioned he and his workers would focus on the quarterback rotation for the second week of coaching camp. Stefanski mentioned all the opposite quarterbacks, together with Gabriel and Sanders, would see an uptick in observe reps within the wake of Pickett’s damage. Nevertheless, whether or not every rookie would work with the second or third crew would rely on the observe schedule.
“It is actually depending on the interval, what we’re attempting to perform in that interval and simply transferring these guys round, giving them some extra publicity,” the coach mentioned.
Sanders, a fifth-round decide, is the one quarterback who didn’t obtain first-team reps throughout the first week of camp.
