Joe Flacco was a revelation for the Cleveland Browns during the regular season, stepping in to win four straight starts to push the Browns into the playoffs as a Wild Card.

Flacco’s stretch of impressive play even created a brief quarterback question for the Browns going forward: would they stick with Flacco or go back to a healthy Deshaun Watson in 2024?

Key word: brief.

Flacco showed his warts in the postseason, throwing a couple of pick-sixes in Cleveland’s blowout loss to the Houston Texans in the Wild Card Round.

Clearly, Watson will be under center for the Browns once he is all recovered from shoulder surgery, so, at best, Flacco will be a backup in Cleveland next season.

The catch is, Flacco will be a free agent this spring, meaning he can sign elsewhere to potentially compete for a starting job if he so pleases.

But would the Browns considering bringing him back as a No. 2 signal-caller? General manager Andrew Berry said it’s a possibility, but that it won’t be that easy.

“We’d absolutely love to have Joe back,” Berry said, via The Akron Beacon-Journal. “He’s a good quarterback, but I guess maybe a little bit similar to Jacoby last year. It depends, right? I want to bring all of our good players back, but there are constraints to that. I’m really kind of both sides of the aisle but would have no problem having Joe back.”

In five regular-season starts for Cleveland in 2023, Flacco threw for 1,616 yards, 13 touchdowns and eight interceptions while completing 60.3 percent of his passes and posting a passer rating of 90.2.

Now 39 years old, Joe Flacco has played for four different teams throughout his NFL career. He is most known for his 11-year run with the Baltimore Ravens, where he won a Super Bowl during the 2012-13 campaign.

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