Gabriel was rated as the No. 163 overall player and the No. 10 quarterback in the draft by Bleacher Report's NFL Scouting Department. The Browns clearly valued him much higher than this as the team selected him 94th overall and made him the fifth quarterback off of the board.

No offense to Dillon Gabriel, but the wall of cameras in front of him and at least a handful of the reporters on either side of the podium he spoke at Saturday weren’t there for him. The Shedeur Sanders show is in town and both quarterbacks spoke to the media for the first time in-person at Browns rookie minicamp before taking the field for their Day 2 practice.