The Cleveland Browns have a crowded quarterbacks room after the draft selections of Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel, and Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cam Heyward is having some fun with that.
After adding Gabriel in the third round and Sanders in the fifth, the Browns now have a five-man quarterbacks room that includes Deshaun Watson, Kenny Pickett Joe Flacco, Sanders and Gabriel, although Watson is not expected to play this season after re-tearing his Achilles’ tendon.
Flacco was signed in free agency, and before that Pickett was acquired in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles that saw Cleveland overpay by sending the Super Bowl champs a fifth-round pick and Dorian Thompson-Robinson.
While touching on the Browns’ quarterbacks room during a recent episode of his “Not Just Football with Cam Heyward” podcast, the Steelers star poked fun at his division rival but did say he still respects the guys in Cleveland’s room.
“You don’t know what’s going on in Cleveland at the quarterback position,” Heyward said. “But you still have a lot of respect for guys like [Joe] Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel — uh, how many different quarterbacks we got over there? I know [the Browns] called us a dumpster fire today, but I’m just trying to figure out how many quarterbacks we got over there.”
The Browns did actually have the nerve to call the Steelers a dumpster fire when they took part in a pre-schedule release social media venture that compared their 2026 opponents to memes.
It was a bizarre thing to do considering few franchises in NFL history have been a bigger dumpster fire than the Browns, who are the very definition of that currently, mostly because of their messy situation at quarterback.
Not to mention, the Steelers are one of the most respected franchises in the league, and while they haven’t had a ton of success in recent years and have been stuck in neutral, they are still far better off than the Browns are right now.
The Steelers will first meet the Browns in Week 6 this coming season, but who is under center for Cleveland at that point is anyone’s guess.
