Shedeur Sanders is QB1 for the Browns against the Panthers but got the fewest reps in joint practice

Let’s get this out of the way: There is no conspiracy theory against Shedeur Sanders. The Cleveland Browns are not out to ruin his career or set him up to fail.

The Browns are simply treating him like a fifth-round rookie and the fourth quarterback on their depth chart. Nothing more, nothing less.

One thing I’ve come to realize since the conclusion of the NFL Draft is that Sanders has a legion of fans unlike anything I’ve previously experienced. The Browns have had high-profile quarterbacks in the past with ardent supporters — Johnny Manziel, Baker Mayfield and Deshaun Watson, for example. When the radio station in Norman, Okla., began carrying Browns games during Mayfield’s rookie season, I thought it was charming. Mayfield was and still is wildly popular around Oklahoma’s campus. | https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6539320/2025/08/07/shedeur-sanders-browns-quarterback-starting-friday-panthers/

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41 comments
  1. Are any of the ones playing to start the preseason game

    Why would they give him more reps with people he WONT be playing with the next day

    This whole shedouche infusion has really shown me how unbearably stupid people are like IDK if it’s a bunch of you clowns that just cuck for this guy because your small minded turds and have no sense of self, or its long time browns fans that are just stupid but come on

    Also this fan reject couch show is getting worse and worse

    Powell is the only one with a lick of talent or charisma…run brother

  2. Could be racism, his father or aliens or Putin. OR it could be that Sanders has dead arm/sore arm this week and they don't want him to hurt himself especially when he's starting the first pre season game and 2 other QB's are already hurt. Crazy thoughts I know !

  3. 1. Shedeur didn't come to the NFL to be on anybody's practice squad — first and foremost. His talent will make space for itself, and the place and timing will be Divine.

    2. 'Maybe he's been humbled enough' is crazy, but I'm not surprised to hear a white person say it. Some white people are tone deaf to constructs like 'the need to be humbled'. It is only ever applied to Black people who 'appear not know their place'; its a throwback from slavery.

    Do I think the guy who said it here is racist? No — just tone deaf.

    3. It occurred to me, following GBush's assessment of what went on behind the scenes at the draft and why, that the Browns' job here is to finish putting Shedeur 'in his place'. I don't believe the universe would allow that, but the thought did come to me, so I'M sharing it here. And I will also ask GBush, whose opinion I trust.🤷🏽‍♀️

  4. When a team who has QB issues for 25 years hands first team reps to a 3rd round pick who didn't do anything to earn it.Told me these guys simply don't know what the F they are doing as a team.Ball out Shedeur!!

  5. If we knew without a doubt that 12 would be signed by another team, we wouldn’t even care if the Browns cut him. We just know that it’s a good chance NO other team will pick him up. It’s not looking good for us fans.

  6. Who said Shedeur mentally was struggling …. I'll wait. Which Coach in which session? Mind you Pat Shurmur was his OC for the last 2 years & he's had 6 throughout his college career. Are these folks that ignorant?

  7. I know it's not the case, BUT a Fan can wish right? Maybe they're just bluffing the shit outta us and trying to keep the media hype and intrigue surrounding the team and the Dome and behind the scenes Sheduer is getting the reps we are not seeing maybe that's why his practice reps are so damn low yet he had a sore shoulder??? I know I'm wrong but maybe? We all know who the best QB has been all summer long S12S!!!!

  8. Man fk that humbled shhh. That kid was done wrong and the Browns are pissing me off now too.

    He looks better than everyone except Flacco and if they don’t admit that it’s some BS

  9. Stefanski and the Browns organization and coaches do not know how to really develope QBS and players in general. Not do Stefanski have his team properly prepared for success and wins. The first games of the season. This is unacceptable garbage for a NFL coach especially.

  10. Only fake Browns fans are hoping Flacco fell, and obviously the coaching staff already has their #2 in mind…

    Fannin is playing, Diontae Johnson is playing, Sampson is playing. I'm tired of the Sheduer cult crying, it's getting old… And it's bad for the Browns culture

  11. The Browns won’t trade him because they’re making $$ from him being on the team. Shedeur is a great player and because he’s not getting a chance to show it with the Browns doesn’t mean a thing. If he plays well when he gets a chance he can go to another team with an organization that acts like to want him and to invest in him, he’ll ball out like Baker. It’s hard to change the mentality of a losing organization if they don’t want to change.

  12. If the Browns don't keep Sanders or any of these Qbs and think the Mannings aren't watching this dysfunction and thinking they're going draft Arch, they better think again because all hell is going to break loose if they try🤣😂😭

  13. The Browns’ veteran quarterbacks are proven backups. Dillon Gabriel is not NFL capable. Shedeur Sanders is their only real hope. Despite being a fifth-round pick, he will prove he’s a first-round talent and soon lead an NFL team, hopefully not the Browns.

  14. Why are people worried about being wrong about drafting a Quarterback?
    It happens EVERY YEAR. The pride argument is disturbing to me.

    The concept of drafting ANY athlete is a GUESS about their ability to perform at the professional level. Organizations guess wrong all of the time.
    Standing behind a draft pick when you KNOW that the athlete isn’t a good fit for your team is simply wasting time and money.

    The entire reason why Kenny Pickett is a member of the Browns is because the Steelers felt like they made a mistake and moved on.
    They had an entire conversation about sending Shedeur to the practice squad. If that’s how they feel before he’s played a down, then they don’t believe in him or his abilities as a quarterback.
    Keep Dillon Gabriel and go out and draft your “quarterback of the future” next year.
    How many Quarterbacks are teams wrong about each year?

    The faster that a team can identify the mistake and move on, the better they will be in the future.
    If the Cleveland Browns feel like they have made mistakes at the Quarterback position, they should make their corrections and move on.

  15. I think the Browns will move on from Bitonio, Teller and Conklin next year. Zack Zinter should get a some playing time this year and then in 2026 he will take over for Bitonio.

  16. You can't win if he doesn't play the browns are screwing him they give him the start and they're setting him up for failure Cleveland can't win

  17. Media types keep saying Shedeur is just "a 5th round draft pick" in the hopes that if they say it enough they can get us to swallow that crap and believe it. 5th round is just where it was orchestrated for him to fall. my issue with people who don't believe there could be sabotage, collusion or even bias when it comes to unfair treatment of Shedeur Sanders is you don't really know him or his career. You acknowledged it yourself in your statement above, "One thing I’ve come to realize since the conclusion of the NFL Draft is that Sanders has a legion of fans unlike anything I’ve previously experienced" Majority of the media and social media commenters wasn't paying attention to Shedeur at Jackson or Colorado you been catching up on him with college film but know nothing about his football life before college or that the fans he had in college have been following him since middle school and his parents' reality TV show. As his dad would say, "we ain't new to this. we true to this" Play him now or play him later. I doesn't matter. When he gets out there he'll be carving $12 on the field

  18. Was wondering about the mess thatvm is Judkins. Say a 8 game suspension comes down in the next few weeks. After that the Browns can sign him lets say the guarented money is very low and there are a lot of forfeting of money rightfully soby the Browns for a variety of reasons and this infurates Judkinds. Can he simply refuse to sign that contract with the Browns sit out the whole year and re-enter the draft in 26? I think he can ? Another high pick wasted.

  19. Sure are a lot of colorada Sheduer groupies on here. If he's good enough we will know if not we will know these wild conspiracies are funnier when trump tells them. Nobody hates this guy are you kidding if he's the guy he will be the #1 star in Cleveland everybody well 90% would love that stop with the moronic dark state Bull Schiltz.

  20. PLEASE PLEASE STOP YOU GUYS. TALK ABOUT SOMETHING YOU CAN BE REAL ABOUT. COME ON, THEY SHOW YOU NOT TELL YOU. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS PLEASE DON'T INSULT SOME OF YOUR LISTENERS.

  21. LISTEN…this is a spiritual warfare. NON-Christians won't understand. SS represents God, thats why they are hating. "All things work for good for those who love the Lord". All SS fans and followers, lets pray and let God shine through all this.

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