{"id":686498,"date":"2026-06-05T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686498\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:46:08","slug":"jared-verse-to-wear-no-8-with-browns-dillon-gabriel-will-change-his-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686498\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Verse to wear No. 8 with Browns, Dillon Gabriel will change his number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Verse and Dillon Gabriel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jared-verse-shows-up-for-practice-in-no-8-even-though-its-dillon-gabriels-number-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">were both wearing<\/a> No. 8 at Browns practice this week, but that won\u2019t be the case for long. <\/p>\n<p>Verse wore No. 8 with the Rams, so it was no surprise to see the edge rusher take the field in the same number after this week\u2019s trade. Gabriel wore the number last season, but Verse is higher in the team\u2019s pecking order than a backup quarterback so it is also no surprise to learn that Gabriel will be the one changing his look. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that Gabriel and the Browns are waiting for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/2062910670425800973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the league to sign off <\/a>on a change. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what needs to happen for that approval, but quarterbacks are limited to 0-19 and the Browns currently don\u2019t have another number available in that range. The only one currently not assigned is No. 14, but that\u2019s been retired for Otto Graham. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not likely to be put back into circulation, so someone else will likely be switching their number as the Browns adjust to Verse\u2019s arrival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Verse and Dillon Gabriel were both wearing No. 8 at Browns practice this week, but that won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-686498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}