{"id":694100,"date":"2026-06-09T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694100\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:38:08","slug":"browns-qb-dillon-gabriel-is-now-wearing-no-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694100\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns QB Dillon Gabriel is now wearing No. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no longer two players wearing No. 8 at Browns practices. <\/p>\n<p>Snapshots of quarterback Dillon Gabriel at Tuesday\u2019s practice shows that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jared-verse-to-wear-no-8-with-browns-dillon-gabriel-will-change-his-number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he\u2019s wearing No. 6<\/a>. Both Gabriel and newly acquired edge rusher Jared Verse were wearing No. 8 last week, but word was that Gabriel would change numbers and leave his former one for Verse. <\/p>\n<p>There were no unassigned numbers from 0-19 on the Browns\u2019 roster, but linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah will not play this season as he continues to deal with a neck injury and that left No. 6 as the obvious spot for Gabriel now that No. 8 is not an option for him.<\/p>\n<p>With the number issue settled, Gabriel can resume his bid to secure a spot on the 53-man roster. Deshaun Watson, Shedeur Sanders and sixth-round pick Taylen Green are the other players in the position group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are no longer two players wearing No. 8 at Browns practices. Snapshots of quarterback Dillon Gabriel at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-694100","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\/694100","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=694100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}