Mike Tomlin has no words to explain his surprise that Joe Flacco is on the schedule with a second AFC North team on Thursday night.

The Steelers (4-1) beat the Cleveland Browns on Sunday with rookie Dillon Gabriel in the starting role that belonged to Flacco until two weeks ago. Now Flacco is the QB1 for the Cincinnati Bengals (2-4), who pried Flacco from Cleveland in a rare intradivision trade last week.

Tomlin was puzzled by Browns general manager Andrew Berry reversing course from Flacco starting the season as the No. 1 quarterback to trading him to the Bengals a month later.

“To be honest, it was shocking to me,” Tomlin said. “Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us. Because it doesn’t make sense to me to trade a quarterback you think enough of to make your opening-day star

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