BEREA, Ohio — Shedeur Sanders will face some tremendous challenges in the final four games of the season, beginning with the Bears’ opportunistic defense on Sunday.

The Bears lead the NFL with a plus-17 turnover differential, and have grabbed a league-high 18 interceptions.

Bears safety Kevin Byard III leads the team with six interceptions, and cornerback Nahshon Wright is second with five.

Sanders has thrown three in his four appearances, including one during Sunday’s 31-29 loss to the Titans on a deep pass over the middle intended for fellow rookie Gage Larvadain.

“It’s a great formula for winning,” Kevin Stefanski said of the Bears’ takeaways and the impact on their 9-4 records. “I think Ben (Johnson’s) doing an outstanding job with that group.”

Stefanski noted that “they have some players with outstanding ball skills and anticipatory skills to go to footballs. They’re playing in their zone defense, very visual for the quarterback. So with any quarterback, young quarterback, old quarterback, you have to do a great job with your eyes. You have to trust what you see when you’re looking at them and you have to key their defenders and understand where they are.”

Stefanski was impressed with Sanders ability to bounce back from his interception vs. the Titans, and put the Browns in position to pull out the victory at the end with two touchdowns in the final 4:27, a 7-yard scramble by him, and a 7-yard touchdown pass to Harold Fannin Jr.

“He does a great job and you have to, as a quarterback, have a very short memory,” Stefanski said. “That’s an occupational hazard that those things are going to happen. You learn from it. You try to prevent it and learn from those type of things, but you’ve got to bounce back and he did.”

Sanders said he felt the offense had gotten stagnant at that point, and he was trying to create a spark. But the Browns were in second and 20 from their 45 at the time, and Sanders was under tremendous pressure. A throwaway there would’ve been wide. The Titans score two plays later to take a 21-17 lead.

Brrrr!

Sanders will also have to deal with potential single-digit temperatures and wind chills as low as the minus-20s.

“We deal with elements in all these games,” Stefanski said. “Sometimes it’s wind, sometimes it’s rain, it’s snow, it’s cold. It’s the same for both teams. Sometimes it can have an effect on the kicking game and how the ball travels, that type of thing, but you deal with elements regardless of whether it’s really, really hot or really, really cold.”

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