Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders probably doesn't have much of a chance to win the Cleveland Browns' starting job based on Friday's reporting at the start of training camp.
Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders was known to be behind Dillon Gabriel, Joe Flacco, and Kenny Pickett on the Cleveland Browns’ depth chart. On Friday, as the Cleveland Browns’ training camp opened, it was made clear how far.
Yahoo Sports’ Jori Epstein tried to stick the landing without making Sanders look bad, but her report revealed that Kevin Stefanski wasn’t giving him the same responsibilities in Browns minicamp that he gave the other three in Cleveland’s QB competition.
“The Browns stunned the NFL world selecting Sanders in the fifth round after taking Gabriel in the third. But they didn’t necessarily veer from their principles in the selection,” Epstein wrote.
“Sanders arrived in Cleveland after completing 70.1% of passes for 14,347 yards, 134 touchdowns and 27 interceptions in four total seasons across Jackson State and Colorado. His college experience is deep also, but there is belief among many in the NFL that its volume and diversity trails what Gabriel learned in six years. Browns coaches did not ask Sanders to integrate the same volume of playbook during minicamp as his counterparts, reflected when he did not take first-team snaps as the other three did. Sanders’ arm strength and playmaking impressed on the concepts he did run.”
Sanders is being propped up in this competition. It’s clear when reading the fine print that he’s nowhere close to being starter-level in the NFL.
If Stefanski can’t give Sanders first-team reps in training camp, it’s fair to assume he’ll get garbage time, at best, in the preseason. If he even gets any snaps at all.
Should Sanders not play at all in the preseason?
The Browns will have gotten their money’s worth with any coverage of Shedeur possibly winning a starting job he never actually had a chance to land.
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