Browns' Dillon Gabriel draft pick looks even worse compared to these 3 players right next to him
This just doesn't look like it'll age well.
Browns' Dillon Gabriel draft pick looks even worse compared to these 3 players right next to him originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Cleveland Browns surprised a lot of people when they drafted Dillon Gabriel in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Sure, it looked even weirder when they drafted a second QB, Shedeur Sanders, a couple rounds later. But even at the time, it was a shock. Gabriel was viewed as a late-round quarterback, and instead he was the No.
94 overall pick. If Browns fans were hoping to somehow feel better about that a year later, this won't do that. The player taken directly in front of Gabriel, and then the two right after him, all had productive rookie seasons and appear to have solid futures ahead of them.
Gabriel's future is a lot less certain. Pro Football Reference has a stat called 'Weighted Average Value,' and without getting too deep into it, its essentially one way of assigning value to each player chosen in a draft class. As a Browns comparison, Harold Fannin had a 5 wAV as a rookie, while Gabriel had a 0.