The Cleveland Browns have high hopes in 2021. When the NFL schedule was released there were a lot of ways to evaluate the schedule. While many of them are valid, the most important ones almost always revolve around the quarterbacks the team will face, when and in what order.
The Browns 2021 schedule has a few high-quality passers on it starting with Patrick Mahomes in Week 1. After that, aging veteran Ben Roethlisberger is on the docket in Week 8 and Week 17 and former MVP Lamar Jackson is seen in Weeks 12 and 14.
The only other proven star quarterback on the schedule is in Week 16 against the Green Bay Packers when Aaron Rodgers welcomes in the Browns.
A couple of mediocre quarterbacks, compared to those listed above, (Kirk Cousins, Jared Goff, Derek Carr) and a few young guys with a little more to prove (Justin Herbert, Kyler Murray, Joe Burrow) also litter the schedule.
The NFL has a lot of very good quarterbacks and Cleveland’s schedule has a few.
It also has a few teams that have quarterback competitions going on in training camp: