Welcome to Graziano’s Notebook.We’re not even a month into the NFL season, and already chaos reigns—quarterbacks going down, teams stumbling, surprises everywhere. What on earth is going on? ESPN Insider Dan Graziano is here to break down some of the madness and shed light on the most pressing topics and conversations happening around the league.How will Bengals deal with Joe Burrow injury? Could they make a trade?“I think they’ll bring in another quarterback just to have the requisite number on the roster,” Graziano said. “They really believe they have one of the best, if not the best, backup quarterback situations in the league. When Joe Burrow got hurt two years ago, Jake Browning led them to a 4–3 record in the games that Burrow missed.“This is a guy who’s been in their program; he’s in his fifth year now. It was Brian Callahan, who was the offensive coordinator there for a long time, that helped kind of develop him. He’s now the head coach of the Titans. So, I think Browning’s performance in 2023 is part of the reason Brian Callahan got a head coach job, quite frankly. So this is a guy who knows their offense, has run it before, and has executed it.“It’s not Joe Burrow level—there’s a reason Joe Burrow makes the money he makes and Jake Browning’s a backup—but there are a lot of good players on that offense, and Browning has shown an ability to operate it.“Anything’s possible, but I would not expect them to trade for Kirk Cousins from the Falcons and install him as the starter. That would be a surprising move for a team that doesn’t tend to spend a lot of money—although recently that’s changed, obviously, with some of the signings they’ve made. I also think that they believe Browning can handle this.“The optimistic scenario on Burrow sounds like three months, which would put him back in mid- to late December, with maybe a couple of games left in the regular season. I don’t know if that’s possible; again, it’s the most optimistic read on this.“So if you can go 6–5 with Browning, maybe—maybe if Burrow does make a great recovery and can play at the end of the season—maybe you still have a chance to get into the playoffs and make some noise.”Burrow is expected to miss at least three months with a toe injuryGettyJoe Flacco and the Browns are 0-2. Will it be Dillon Gabriel or Shedeur Sanders next?“Dillon Gabriel has been the number two guy on the depth chart, and Shedeur Sanders has been inactive as the emergency third quarterback,” Graziano said. “So that tells you how they view it right now. If something were to happen to Flacco, if they were to decide to make a change midgame, it would be Gabriel.“So it stands to reason that if they made a change midweek, they would try Gabriel first. They feel like he’s ahead of Shedeur in line.“We don’t know what’s going on in practice. There’s always a situation. There’s always a possibility that somebody’s ascending more quickly than people realize because the media doesn’t really get to watch all of practice during the season. If Shedeur Sanders were passing Dillon Gabriel in the Browns’ estimation, then you might see a change in the gameday depth chart.“So, because we haven’t, I think we can reach the conclusion that if they move off Joe Flacco to one of the rookies, it would be Gabriel first, and then Sanders if they got to that point.“Deshaun Watson—he’s not healthy enough to play right now. He’s still working his way back from multiple tears of the same Achilles tendon within the past year. But he’s been posting workout videos. There have been some rumblings about whether he could be back before the end of the season.“I don’t think anybody knows that for sure. If and when he decides he’s ready to play, that creates an interesting situation for a team that has another year after this one of guaranteed money.“But I think in some respects, the Browns have kind of moved on, and in thinking that we need to focus on the future at the position, they have two first-round picks next year. I expect them to address it in the draft regardless, but I guess it’s not out of the question that Deshaun Watson could come back and play this year. It does seem to be a fairly wide-open situation.”Sanders and Gabriel are the two quarterbacks behind FlaccoGettyWhat about Adam Schefter’s report on Shedeur turning down Ravens draft pick?“It would lend some credence to that idea that they were trying to manage the draft process,” Graziano said. “I don’t know anything beyond what Adam [Schefter] has reported. And Adam’s Adam, so I have no reason to doubt the report, obviously, but that’d be short-sighted by Shedeur Sanders. Imagine if Lamar Jackson had said to the Ravens, ‘Don’t draft me. You already have Flacco. He’s doing great.’“You want to be in a good organization that looks out for your long-term development if you’re a young quarterback. While the Browns, historically, I think there are some things they’ve done in the front office and around the building that are somewhat cutting edge and beneficial to the players, the fact is their history with quarterbacks is horrendous.“If you’re deciding where you want to go between those two teams, for example, it feels like Baltimore would be the better play. I guess what you have to assume is that he was thinking, ‘I’m looking for a place where I can become the starter quickly, regardless of my draft status,’ and Cleveland’s quarterback depth chart, I think, objectively offered that opportunity, at least in theory.”Sanders was taken in the fifth round with the 144th overall pickGettyWhy does the two-way hype around Travis Hunter and his ‘unicorn’ talent seem to be off to a slow start?“The Jaguars are off to a rough start,” Graziano said. “They are doing it, but it’s not full time on both sides of the ball. And I don’t think they ever expected it to be. But he played a little more defense in Week Two for a couple of reasons.“One, the matchup with the Bengals—they felt that dictated it because of their wide receivers. And two, they had an injury to a cornerback midgame, which resulted in Travis playing more defense than maybe they had initially planned. I haven’t looked at the snap counts to see when that might have changed.“I talked to him a couple of weeks ago when I went down to Jacksonville and interviewed him for Sunday NFL Countdown. He’s very much like, ‘People that want to doubt me don’t know who I am. I’m different.’“Maybe he is, but the NFL is very hard, and he’s still learning his way into it. And the Jaguars, I believe, are still in the process of learning and figuring out the best way to deploy this player. I don’t think what we’ve seen the first two weeks should lead people to draw broad conclusions and say, ‘Well, this is how they plan to use him.’“I think they’re still figuring it out, and it might look a lot different next year. It might look a lot different nine weeks from now. That’s where they are with him, as they feel like he can help on both sides of the ball. It’s a question of how and what that looks like each week.“Does it change each week? Where does he still have to get better? Is he only going to be a slot receiver or only going to be a slot cornerback? And is there a possibility to use him in other places? So I really think they’re still in that process of figuring this all out—along with him.”Hunter has seen the majority of his snaps come on the offensive side of the ballGetty