The Cleveland Browns have admitted that they would be prepared to keep all four quarterbacks present at training camp on the active roster in 2025 if they are ‘53-man worthy’.

That was the opinion of general manager Andrew Berry as the main preseason camp opened in Berea with veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, obtained in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, going up against rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. The first four days of camp, according to head coach Kevin Stefanski, will be used to give each member of the QB quartet their own allocation of reps, with the off-day on Saturday to assess how time under center will be divided in the coming weeks. Stefanski also confirmed that the quarterbacks would continue to use the ‘two-spot’ approach, in which they are split onto separate fields and run drills simultaneously.

“I have a plan that’s in pencil, and we have to take in information every single day, take in how guys are handling certain situations, and then adjust from there,” he told the Browns official website. “But we’ll get to those types of decisions later on. I think the big thing for me is putting our guys in a position where we can evaluate them. I think they did a great job in the spring — all four of those guys — [and] I will continue to put them in some situations but, ultimately, we’d love to make decisions sooner than later.”

Berry, meanwhile, speaking with the media 24 hours after his head coach, confirmed the four-man approach to quarterbacks in camp, before putting it out there that the entire group could be retained after cut-down day.

“I think, with the roster flexibility nowadays – especially with the elevations that you’re able to have on the practice squad – there’s just more flexibility in terms of how to build your 48-man gameday roster, where it’s maybe not as quite as restrictive in the past,” Berry said. “Now, that being said, when roster rules were more, let’s say, draconian, there have been teams that have carried four. So, if there are four that are 53-man worthy, we think it makes the most sense for us to keep them.”

With the remainder of training camp and three preseason games preceding the need to halve the number of players in the building, the pressure is off Berry and Stefanski for the time being, but the GM admitted that he’d like to see each QB stake his claim over the next few weeks.

“I think this is a year where we have the opportunity to see a lot of growth with some of the players who are going to be given and earn new opportunities,” he confirmed. “But, like I said, we’re going to be focused on the work.

“Kevin and I might be the only ones who talk more about the quarterback position than you throughout the next couple weeks, and it’s something that we’ll talk about consistently. At the end of the day, I trust him [and] I trust our coaching staff in terms of who they want to play. I think we’ll get a lot more information over the next few weeks.”