{"id":701570,"date":"2026-06-13T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701570\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:52:14","slug":"andrew-berry-everything-is-on-the-table-for-deshaun-watson-browns-at-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701570\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Berry: “Everything is on the table” for Deshaun Watson, Browns at QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Browns head coach Todd Monken told reporters this week that between Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson, Cleveland has two quarterbacks capable of playing winning football. <\/p>\n

Particularly for Watson, this represents an organizational reversal after team owner Jimmy Haslam said last spring that the trade for the quarterback was \u201ca big swing and a miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

But General Manager Andrew Berry said on Friday that those comments didn\u2019t have much to do with the way the Browns have operated to set up this year\u2019s QB competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you deal with what you have<\/a>,\u201d Berry said in an interview with Anthony Lima and Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan. \u201cYou deal with how players progress or don\u2019t progress. But honestly, the public discourse doesn\u2019t really have a factor in terms of how we think about putting together the team, with Todd, in terms of putting together the best lineup. That really doesn\u2019t play a factor into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berry also said that he\u2019s not ruling anything out when it comes to Watson \u2014 including a potential new deal for the QB, who is entering the last year of his contract with Cleveland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everything is on the table,\u201d Berry said. \u201cI think it would be silly to go into a season saying, \u2018Something absolutely can or cannot happen.\u2019 And I think particularly at the quarterback position, we\u2019ve seen it with guys whether it\u2019s Sam Darnold, or Daniel Jones, or Geno Smith, even Baker after he left us and Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think you have to be open-minded and flexible. But I wouldn\u2019t rule out anything. We\u2019re looking for guys who can perform and who can lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson has not played a full season since 2020 when he was still with Houston. He\u2019s started 19 games for Cleveland since 2022, completing 61 percent of his passes for 3,365 yards with 19 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see in August if he can beat out Sanders to reclaim his spot as Cleveland\u2019s QB1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns head coach Todd Monken told reporters this week that between Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson, Cleveland has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-701570","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\/701570","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=701570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}