Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel have backers of them being the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback.
While Shedeur Sanders has been wowing fans with his passing accuracy at Cleveland Browns minicamp and OTA’s he hasn’t impressed head coach Kevin Stefanski. This has sent waves of confusion among the football masses, who then found out that Shedeur was at the bottom of Cleveland’s QB depth chart.
This sparks the question: if Sanders has been performing well at practice and outproducing the people ahead of him without him getting first-team reps, then why isn’t he at least getting the same opportunity as Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and Dillon Gabriel?
Stefanski should be able to see the talent that he has in his QB room. Yes, Flacco did win a Super Bowl, but that doesn’t make him better than Dillon or Sanders right now at this point in his career.
Former NFL star Cecil Shorts III believes that Stefanski will need to defend his QB guru title by using his rookies to his advantage.
“I don’t want to see nobody else at quarterback but the two rookies,” Shorts said.
“Preseason, all I want to see is Dylan Gabriel and Shadeur Sanders. I don’t want to see nobody else.
"Nobody else because those two guys need the opportunity to go win the job and then put them in the fire.”
Shorts would proceed to call out Stefanski.
“Kevin (Stefanski), you supposed to be the guru. This is supposed to be what you supposed to do. You got two guys that are extremely accurate in college, that were unbelievably accurate in college,” Shorts said.
"If you’re the guru like you say you are, if you’re the guru like everybody says that is, 'Oh, he can develop.’ Prove it. Prove it. Pick one and develop him throughout the year.”
He would also go on to endorse Sanders at Gabriel's expense..
“To me, talent-wise, Shedeur is way better than Dillon," Shorts prefaced before saying, "Dillon wasn’t nobody’s list.”
This situation is becoming a larger ordeal than the Browns ever imagined. Sanders is obviously the better of the two drafted, and this will have to come to a controversial conclusion anyway.
But what do the Browns choose?
Do they keep up this charade with Sanders or do they suck up their pride and allow Shedeur the rightfully earned opportunity?
Category: General Sports
