Former Oregon Ducks quarterback Dillon Gabriel is in the middle of his first NFL offseason, and he seems to have kept his lighthearted, relaxed attitude during the adjustment. Despite being part of a quarterback competition with the Cleveland Browns , Gabriel was all jokes during the Cleveland Browns' 2025 Foundation Golf Outing.
"Put that **** on Twitter," Gabriel joked after seemingly nailing his tee shot to start a par 3.
The Browns social media team did in fact post the video to X, letting fans get a glimpse of the newest Cleveland quarterback's golf swing. Based off of Gabriel's reaction, it's safe to assume that the rookie quarterback's shot landed on the green with Gabriel telling the ball to roll closer to the pin.
"Put that on twitter!"
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) June 2, 2025
you got it @_dillongabriel_ @SERVPRO | #DawgPound pic.twitter.com/jLR4tRtsgY
While Gabriel and the Browns enjoyed a day on the golf course, the former Oregon Duck was back to work as Cleveland resumed organized team activities, "OTAs," on Tuesday. Gabriel was selected in the third round by the Browns, and he has a legitimate chance to earn a role on Cleveland's offense.
The former Oregon star has to compete with fellow rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders as well as quarterbacks Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett for the starting job. The Browns also have quarterback Deshaun Watson on the roster as he recovers from a ruptured Achilles, making the quarterback room a crowded one in Cleveland. Still, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski likes what he sees from his rookie quarterbacks as they start to learn the NFL game.
"Those guys are doing great," Stefanski said at the same golf event when asked about Gabriel and Sanders. "They are both wired to get in early, stay late, put in whatever work is required. They're sponges in the meeting room which I think is really fun for me and my vantage point."
"I get to sit there and watch the two young guys look over and there's Joe [Flacco], 40 years old, won a Super Bowl. There's Kenny Pickett, just going into year four, but first round draft pick that's been on a couple teams, won a Super Bowl last year. There's Deshaun [Watson], had a ton of success in his career. They can kind of feed off of all those guys. So that's the thing I'm really - it's fun to watch them get better sometimes just by listening," Stefanski continued.
Both Gabriel and Sanders might have a long ways to go before either is prepared to play valuable snaps for Cleveland's offense, but it looks like the two rookie quarterbacks are getting along instead of simply competing against each other on their unique journey.
Head coach Kevin Stefanski, speaking at the #Browns foundation golf outing, on the QB room - especially the rookies Dillon Gabriel & Sheduer Sanders pic.twitter.com/k16t9rsRlr
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) June 2, 2025
Earlier in the offseason, Sanders spoke about his early impressions of Gabriel in an interview with SportCasting's DJ Siddiqui.
"Everything's been cool," Sanders told Siddiqui. "He's a cool person. I like how he handles situations, especially just the negative media that's coming his way. I'm just happy he's positive, he's able to handle everything. We're truly cool."
Sanders was one of the more popular rookies in the 2025 NFL Draft class, but the Browns made a few surprising moves when they drafted Gabriel in the third round followed by selecting Sanders in the fifth round. Will either rookie quarterback start for Cleveland during the season?
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants to deal with David Mulugheta insofar as to get Micah Parsons' agent to fill out the paperwork on the contract extension that was already negotiated. During an appearance with Michael Irvin on Thursday, Jones said Mulugheta told him to shove the paperwork up their heinie. "When we wanted to send the details to the agent, The agents told us to stick it up our a--," Jones said. "Just so we're clear. (Parsons) and I talked, and then we were going to send it over to the agent, and we had our agreements on term, amount, guarantees, everything. "We were going to send it over to the agent, and the agent said, 'Don't bother, because we've got all that to negotiate.' Well, I'd already negotiated. I'd already moved off my mark on several areas." Following an incoherent analogy to a child going between a mom and dad to negotiate, Jones accused Mulugheta of trying to "stick his nose" in negotiations to try to get the Cowboys to cave for a better deal for his client. Jones has no plans to back down from the agreement he had already worked out with Parsons. "In my mind, for the Dallas Cowboys, we've got it done," Jones said. "And if the agent wants to finish up the details, which he should, and do all the paperwork, he can do that, and we're ready to go. But as far as the amount of money, the years, the guarantees, all of that we negotiated." Dallas is set to conclude its preseason against the Atlanta Falcons on Friday night with no end in sight to the biggest distraction on the team this summer. Jones should have avoided the situation with Parsons by dealing with Mulugheta directly, but that might have caused the theatre to be much less dramatic before the regular season.
Preseason football can produce some misleading results, but the New York Giants have to be ecstatic with what they have seen from first-round pick quarterback Jaxson Dart so far. He impressed again on Thursday night against the New England Patriots, before being removed from the game to be evaluated for a concussion. The Giants said he cleared the concussion protocol. Prior to that, however, Dart was showing all of his skills in leading the Giants offense. While his final stat line only shows a 6-for-12 passing performance for 81 yards, some of those incompletions were passes that could — and, perhaps, should — have been caught. He did not get a lot of help from his wide receivers. Even so, he still completed a 50-yard pass to Gunner Olszewski, and then connected with Greg Dulcich for a touchdown on a laser of a pass. Along with the passing, Dart also showed off his ability to run with a 23-yard gain. The only downside to that run, however, is that it ended his night when his head hit the ground, resulting in him leaving the game to be evaluated for the potential concussion. Dart does not figure to be in serious competition for the starting job as veteran Russell Wilson seems to have that locked down, at least for now. But Dart has done everything he can in the preseason to show that he has the ability to play at the NFL level. Including his performance on Thursday, he leaves the preseason having completed 32-of-47 passes for 372 yards, three touchdowns, zero interceptions and also ran six times for 52 yards and a touchdown. It is hard for a rookie to do better than that in their first look in the NFL. The Giants have been searching for a long-term quarterback solution ever since Eli Manning retired and have gone through a revolving door of bad options. They are hoping Dart can finally put an end to that for the foreseeable future. There is still a long way to go before he gets to that level, but he has certainly made a great first impression.
The New York Yankees can hit the baseball out of the ballpark as well as any team in the major leagues, and that will always give them a chance to win any game. They also field the baseball as poorly as any team in the major leagues, and that can cost them games. The latter issue was on display once again on Thursday night in a 6-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox to kick off an absolutely massive four-game series in the American League wild-card race. Not only did the Yankees lose to allow Boston to keep gaining ground in the standings, but they also kind of gave it away in the field. The issues started in the top of the second inning when the Yankees made three errors, including a throwing error from catcher Ben Rice to bring in Boston's first run. The fielding miscues continued in the top of the ninth when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt committed the Yankees' fourth error of the game, allowing the inning to extend for Roman Anthony to come to bat. He used that at-bat to pretty much put the game out of reach with an absolute moonshot of a home run. These fundamental errors and mistakes were a problem for the Yankees a year ago, and they remain a problem now. They are also not going away anytime soon, and they keep showing in big moments — and in big games. Until they figure out a way to get that changed — and it might be too late for this roster to do so — they are going to have some big concerns going into October. Hitting home runs is great. But not consistently making routine mistakes and giving good teams extra outs is the type of thing that not even home runs can always overcome. Overall, the Yankees are a very good team. Until they clean up these mistakes, they won't be a great team.