Jameis Winston to remain QB1 for the Browns until he is not

Cleveland HC Kevin Stefanski plans to stick with the veteran coming out of the bye week, both for the duration of the season and week-to-week.

The NFL will close out Week 10 tonight when the Miami Dolphins face the Los Angeles Rams.

Once the final whistle blows on the game, it will mark the official conclusion of the bye week for the Cleveland Browns, who will embark on eight glorious uninterrupted weeks of football beginning with a road game against the New Orleans Saints.

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On Monday, head coach Kevin Stefanski wasted little time letting every interested party know that Jameis Winston will remain the team’s starting quarterback for the “duration (of the season) and week-to-week.”

It may be an odd way to phrase it, but it was also a strange line of questioning from the assembled media who needed that additional bit of clarification to make sure Stefanski was not just referring to the game against the Saints.

To be fair, these are the Browns, and with the way that the franchise has cycled through quarterbacks since releasing Bernie Kosar in early November of 1993, the odds of Winston seeing out the remainder of the season as QB1 are not very high.

Rather, it seems likely that either because of poor play (more on that in a moment), an injury, or just a general mood of “let’s see what they can do,” the trio of Winston, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, and Bailey Zappe will all get a start sometime before the campaign winds down on January 5 against the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaking of poor play, on Sunday Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff threw five interceptions in Detroit’s game against the Houston Texans, the first quarterback to throw that many interceptions in a single game in five years.

The last one to do it? None other than Winston, who accomplished it while with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a Week 6 loss to the Carolina Panthers in 2019.

Here’s hoping that Winston does not take that as some kind of challenge for this week’s game against the Saints, because if he does then Jim Hardy’s NFL record of eight interceptions in a single game, set in 1950 during Hardy’s lone Pro Bowl season with the Chicago Cardinals, could be in jeopardy.