Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders knows what he has to do to win the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback competition this offseason.
Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders used the first day of training camp to address his battle to climb out of fourth place on the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback depth chart and win the starting job.
Sanders made it clear that he plans on being “legendary.”
“You know, no excuses. I’ll put in the work and do what I have to do. (About) to be time to be legendary, whenever that time is. You know, mentally, at the very beginning, it’ll be a challenge. But I like the challenge now,” Sanders said in a video he posted to Instagram.
At least the “Grown QB” understands the assignment.
Sanders isn’t in Kansas anymore. That’s probably a good thing since the last time he was there, his Buffs lost a late-season matchup to the KU Jayhawks that essentially eliminated Colorado from the College Football Playoff.
On a serious note, Sanders isn’t close to starting for the Browns.
He needs to have the best training camp a fifth-round pick has ever had to even get in the conversation.
His progression through OTAs and minicamp was so slow that he worked with a smaller playbook than Dillon Gabriel, Kenny Pickett, and Joe Flacco and went up against exclusively backups.
Yahoo Sports’ Jori Epstein painted that bleak picture for Sanders’ uphill battle in Berea with her reporting, though it wasn’t all bad.
“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.”
Go be legendary, Shedeur.
You have to be to win the starting job.
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