In the wake of the latest injury to a Cleveland Browns quarterback, veteran Joe Flacco appears poised to start the season-opener but the quarterback situation will be a “wild ride” all year, one analyst says.
“Everyone’s hurt except for 40-year-old Joe Flacco so that sort of makes him the odds-on favorite to be the Week 1 starter,” ESPN’s Dan Graziano said Thursday on ESPN. “Flacco looks to be the starter by default.”
Graziano made the comments after rookie Shedeur Sanders suffered an oblique injury that kept him out of Wednesday’s joint practice with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles as a precautionary measure.
The fifth-round draft pick won’t practice Thursday and is unlikely to play in this week’s preseason game, per The Athletic .
The injury comes after Sanders exce