BEREA ― Todd Monken’s first full-squad training camp practice as the Browns‘ head coach is July 29.
The Browns were scheduled to be on the field around 1:30 p.m. The collective bargaining agreement limits what teams can do during the first week of camp in terms of contact drills, so it was very much an extension of what they did in minicamp and the OTAs.
Here’s some quick bullet points from what Monken said during his availability just before the Browns took the field for training camp practice No. 1.
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“Yeah, nothing’s really changed. We anticipate alternating. First of all, four quarterbacks are going to compete. They all won’t get equal reps. Obviously we will alternate just like we did in the spring with Deshaun and Shadeur with the ones.”
“The easiest way for me to say that, and it still won’t stop you from asking, not you particularly, but everybody in general, is the first game. We’re going to have to have a start of the first game, right? I mean, ultimately, I’m not going to decide who the starter is. They decide by their play. Their play decides who the starter is. I don’t have any preconceived notions of how they played in the past or how they’re going to play. I only can, with my eyes, judge. And guys got to play well around them. I think we’ve shored up some things up front. We’ve added some weapons on the perimeter, so I think that’s going to help. But they’ll decide who plays. I don’t decide who plays. The players decide who plays.”
“We’re going to play in the preseason. I won’t back myself into a corner. Right now I plan on playing the starters, but I plan on playing our guys. We got to see what we got. Especially a quarterback.”
“Be great the sooner, the better. But again, the players will determine that. I mean, obviously we brought in three highly regarded free agents. We anticipate those guys starting for us, but that is still to be determined. We’re not at the first game yet. And then we’ll see Spencer, Austin and Parker, the rookies, along with the guys that have come back that were on the roster previously.”
Chris Easterling can be reached at ceasterling@thebeaconjournal.com. Read more about the Browns at www.beaconjournal.com/sports/browns. Follow him on X at @ceasterlingABJ. Sign up for Browns Insider newsletter at https://profile.beaconjournal.com/newsletters/browns-insider/
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Browns coach Todd Monken on QBs, other topics to open training camp
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