Browns add Taylen Green, crowd QB room
- The Cleveland Browns used the No. 182 pick in the sixth round Saturday to draft Arkansas quarterback Taylen Green, adding a fourth passer to a room with Deshaun Watson, Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel. - Green arrives as a 6-foot-5, 227-pound project with rare testing numbers: a 4.36-second 40, 43.5-inch vertical and 11-foot-2 broad jump at the National Football League scouting combine. - Cleveland says it plans to carry a four-man competition into camp, widening a race Todd Monken had already left open this week. (espn.com)
The Browns used the No. 182 pick on Arkansas quarterback Taylen Green on Saturday, adding another passer to an already crowded competition. (nfl.com) (espn.com) Green joins Deshaun Watson, Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel in Cleveland’s quarterback room. ESPN reported the Browns became the first team in 15 years to draft three quarterbacks across a two-draft span. (espn.com) General manager Andrew Berry said Cleveland plans to move forward with all four quarterbacks for now. Berry called Green a “very mature young man” with “rare physical gifts,” while saying he still needs polish as a passer. (espn.com) (nbcsports.com) That matters because the Browns had already opened spring work without naming a 2026 starter. At the team’s voluntary veteran minicamp this week, Sanders and Watson split first-team reps, and coach Todd Monken said he would not call it a two-man race. (espn.com) (sports.yahoo.com) Green’s case starts with traits. He measured 6-foot-5 and 227 pounds, ran a 4.36-second 40-yard dash, and posted a 43.5-inch vertical and 11-foot-2 broad jump at the combine. (espn.com) (on3.com) His production was split between Boise State and Arkansas, but the Browns drafted him off the Arkansas tape and the athletic ceiling. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, he totaled 5,868 passing yards, 34 touchdown passes, 20 interceptions, 1,379 rushing yards and 16 rushing scores. (wkyc.com) (on3.com) Berry also shut down the idea that Green is arriving as a position switch project. NBC Sports reported the Browns view him as a quarterback, not a future receiver or tight end. (nbcsports.com) For Sanders and Gabriel, the pick adds another competitor after both entered the league in 2025. For Watson, it adds one more arm to a room Cleveland has kept fluid through a coaching change and an unsettled depth chart. (espn.com) (sports.yahoo.com) The Browns now head toward training camp with four quarterbacks and no declared starter. Green was drafted as the newest long-term bet, but his first job in Cleveland is simpler: win reps. (espn.com)
