The Browns front office has a lot of work to do as it looks to assemble a roster that can get back to the postseason and make a deeper run in 2024.

What that vision looks like will start to take shape in the coming weeks and months with the NFL Combine, offseason workouts and the NFL Draft all fast approaching. In the meantime, this time of year allows for plenty of speculation about every team’s offseason intentions.

Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr did just that this week with a piece that attempted to make bold predictions for every team in the NFL next season. For the Browns, Orr focused in on the quarterback room and Cleveland’s looming decision to find a backup QB for Deshaun Watson.

Joe Flacco won the Comeback Player of the Year award because of a heroic and unexpected month of NFL football, spelling the Browns after the team was entirely cleaned out at the position. The Browns may know, or will soon realize, how fortunate they were to get that level of performance out of a faux-retired quarterback who had been on the playground with his kids a few weeks before. I had heard a few years back that Flacco desired to play into his 40s. Maybe he is the answer for the Browns. Maybe they lock up a player like Jacoby Brissett. Either way, not backstopping the Deshaun Watson situation is pure lunacy.

The Browns bringing back Flacco would be pretty bold after the 16-year-verteran took the city by storm as he lead the Browns to the playoffs. His presence on the Browns roster behind Watson wold make for an interesting dynamic if they went that route.

Brissett is another veteran QB the Browns have familiarity with as he spent the 2022 season with the team, starting in Watson’s place for 11 games while he served a suspension.

As for the other members of the division, Orr predicted the Ravens will draft another wide receiver in the first round for the draft, that Ryan Tannehill will start at least four games for the Steelers and that the Bengals would win the Super Bowl.