If Dillon Gabriel wants to start a way-too-early list of potential careers after football, perhaps he should fortune telling or a psychic.
After a superb 2024 season at Oregon, Dillon Gabriel was drafted in the third round (94th overall) by the Cleveland Browns. Two rounds later, the Browns used the No. 144 pick in round five on Shedeur Sanders following his stunning draft fall.
With 32 NFL teams, seven rounds and 257 picks, the odds of any prospect correctly predicting their exact landing spots are incredibly slim. But Gabriel managed to do it through the unique art of bird calling.
The NFL and Cleveland Browns shared an Instagram video of Dillon Gabriel bird calling somewhere in his home state of Hawaii, one day before the draft. After making the bird calling sound, Gabriel states that he’ll be taken 94th overall…by the Browns:
Insane: Browns QB Dillon Gabriel predicted his own draft pick by speaking to the Birds pic.twitter.com/HSPL1X6rQD
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) May 5, 2025
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Gabriel predicted his NFL team and, more impressively, his draft spot.
Gabriel joined the University of Central Florida Knights in 2019 and spent three seasons there before moving on to Oklahoma. He earned First-team All-Big 12 honors in 2023 and transferred to Oregon, taking over as the starting QB after Bo Nix was drafted 12th overall by the Denver Broncos.
In his one season at Oregon, Dillon Gabriel completed 72.9 percent of pass attempts for 3,857 yards, 30 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Dillon Gabriel Should Compete For Browns’ QB1 Job
The Browns’ quarterback depth chart consists of Gabriel, Sanders, offseason trade pickup Kenny Pickett, 40-year-old Joe Flacco and Deshaun Watson, who’s expected to miss most (and potentially all) of 2025 recovering from a torn Achilles.
Pickett is on his third team in as many years for a reason, and Flacco is merely a short-term bridge option, so Gabriel should get every opportunity to win the Browns’ starting quarterback job.
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