4 Burning Browns Questions, Including What To Do With Nick Chubb’s contract?

The Browns front staff faces a daunting task in assembling a group capable of returning to the postseason and making a deeper run in 2024. What that vision looks like will begin to take shape in the coming weeks and months, as the NFL Combine, offseason workouts, and NFL Draft all approach. Meanwhile, this time of year provides ample opportunity for speculation about each team’s offseason plans. Related: Four Burning Browns Questions, Including What Will Happen With Nick Chubb’s Contract?

Conor Orr of Sports Illustrated attempted to make big predictions for each NFL team next season in a column published this week. For the Browns, Orr focused on the quarterback situation and Cleveland’s impending choice to recruit a backup quarterback for Deshaun Watson. Joe Flacco won Comeback Player of the Year honors for a remarkable and unexpected month of NFL football, spelling the Browns when the team was completely depleted at the position. The Browns may know, or will soon realize, how lucky they were to obtain that type of performance from a faux-retired

The quarterback had been on the playground with his children a few weeks prior. I had heard a few years ago that Flacco wanted to play into his forties. Perhaps he is the solution for the Browns. Maybe they lock up a player like Jacoby Brissett. In any case, failing to support Deshaun Watson is insane. The Browns bringing back Flacco would be a big move after the 16-year-old quarterback stunned the city by leading the Browns to the playoffs. His presence on the Browns roster behind Watson would provide an intriguing dynamic if they went that way.

Brissett is another seasoned quarterback the Browns are familiar with, having spent the 2022 season with the team, starting in Watson’s stead for 11 games while he was suspended. Related: What Are the Browns Chances of Winning Super Bowl LIX? In terms of the rest of the division, Orr projected that the Ravens would choose another wide receiver in the first round, Ryan Tannehill would start at least four games for the Steelers, and the Bengals would win the Super Bowl.