The Browns made multiple roster moves at quarterback this week, the most notable being the waiver claim of 2021 third-round pick Kellen Mond. Temporarily off Cleveland’s roster, Josh Rosen is still in the team’s plans.
After not being on the Browns’ 53-man roster Tuesday, the former top-10 pick is back with the team on a practice squad deal. Rosen, who signed with the Browns just before training camp, will be in position as the franchise’s de facto QB4 — behind Jacoby Brissett, Joshua Dobbs and Mond. Deshaun Watson‘s 11-game suspension began Tuesday.
For the time being, the carousel that has sent Rosen to six teams since the 2019 draft is stopping. But the UCLA product’s career has obviously not unfolded as most expected. Rosen spent one season with the Cardinals, was traded to the Dolphins a day after Arizona’s Kyler Murray pick and has since been with the Buccaneers, 49ers and Falcons.
Rosen, 25, has only thrown 11 regular-season passes since the Dolphins cut bait after the 2019 season, all coming for last season’s Falcons squad. The Browns also added defensive lineman Isaac Rochell to their taxi squad Thursday.
Despite Kevin Stefanski returning for his third season, the Browns’ four quarterbacks are all new. The team dealt the farm for Watson in March and made the Case Keenum-for-Brissett switch soon after. Dobbs signed with the team in April. The former Steelers backup beat out Rosen for the third-string job during the preseason. The Vikings bailed on Mond after just one season, and although they were planning to keep developing him via a spot on their 16-man practice squad, the Browns’ claim nixed those plans.
The owner is a nut. Desperate. No integrity. Crooked.
The NFL Commissioner put this guy on Browns fans. Must have really hated them.
He defrauded thousands of people of out millions of dollars. Still haven’t heard a good explanation as to why he’s not in prison.
The owner is a nut for sure. Especially when he trades for and gives a crap load of money to a garbage human being and sexual predator
I assume the Browns will be getting a new punter soon?
Moral abandonment can be their super power.
The new market inefficiency: Ethics.
Since it happened in college, he could become a Bengal
He would be a Burfict fit
How does Rosen keep getting backup gigs?
Even with Watson out, he only made the Browns practice squad. That’s about the lowest rung of hanging onto the NFL.
Rosen is good at one thing – cashing big checks. He’s made about $1 million for every game he appeared in.
Wasn’t that long ago that NFL bigshots hit the USC-UCLA game to compare Rosen and Darnold. Now one’s on IR and the other is on a taxi squad. Such a comedown!
Classic example of NFL scouts over-rating a QB prospect and stupid NFL teams for drafting them. This dude might be one of the biggest NFL busts this side of Ryan Leaf