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Shedeur Sanders #2 of the Cleveland Browns <\/p>\n
At this point, the Cleveland Browns<\/a> have Shedeur Sanders<\/a> signed to a standard NFL<\/a> rookie contract, worth $4.7 million over four years, and there is no room for negotiating on that. Sanders is locked in with Cleveland, and the team continues to say through certain media members that it has not intention of moving him, while also hinting that he could yet get a chance to get back on the field after losing the starting job to veteran Deshaun Watson<\/a> in training camp. <\/p>\n Thus, the immediate future for Sanders seems set: Sit and wait behind Watson, and if he either gets hurt or flames out, be ready to get back on the field. That appeared to be the state of play until ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday that Sanders would be doing something he had not done during the draft and first contract process (but probably should have). <\/p>\n He hired an agent. <\/p>\n Shedeur Sanders \u2018Agent Seeks Options\u2019<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what Schefter reported on Wednesday: \u201cBrowns QB Shedeur Sanders, who went through draft night and the early part of his NFL career without an agent, has signed with Adie von Gontard, CEO of Young Money APAA Sports, for representation. With the signing, YMAPAA now represents former Colorado teammates Travis Hunter and Sanders.\u201d<\/p>\n And the reaction was swift from media types. <\/p>\n Charles Robinson<\/a>, formerly of Yahoo and now of NFL Blue Book, wrote, \u201cShedeur Sanders is in year 2 of a 4 year deal. He\u2019s stuck behind Watson. He didn\u2019t hire an agent when he *needed* one during the draft process. But now he hires one 5 games into his second season, with 12 games + 2 years left on his rookie deal? Use your brains. An agent seeks options.\u201d<\/p>\n Will Shedeur Sanders Ask Out of the Browns? Or Vice Versa?<\/p>\n That was something that host Emmett Golden of ESPN Cleveland <\/a>noted, too. There was really no reason Sanders to hire an agent unless something was cooking for the Browns. <\/p>\n Golden said on the air: \u201cFor people that aren\u2019t familiar with this, sometimes a player will go to a team or a team will go to a player and say, Hey, this is what\u2019s about to happen. Maybe the team will say, we\u2019re going to waive you, (but) you can find a trade. A player might say, hey, listen, I would like to be traded. And they go, OK, find a trading partner, we\u2019re not going to do the legwork, you do it. \u00a0And in those situations, you would need an agent, because if you don\u2019t have an agent\u2014a player can\u2019t be on the phone with teams like, \u2018Hey, y\u2019all want to trade for me?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI wonder if it is Shedeur going to the Browns and saying, I want an opportunity somewhere else. Or, are the Browns saying, hey, we are going to make Dillon active coming up here in a couple of weeks, and we\u2019re going to waive you if you can\u2019t find a trade.\u201d<\/p>\n Browns Trade Coming?<\/p>\n And at 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland, Jonathan Peterlin raised the same Sanders-Browns trade flag. <\/p>\n As he said: \u201cI think this is interesting. I can\u2019t figure out why you\u2019d hire an agent when you already have your rookie contract figured out unless you\u2019re trying to make sure that everyone around the NFL knows that you\u2019re open for a trade.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSean Deveney<\/a> is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” More about Sean Deveney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Shedeur Sanders #2 of the Cleveland Browns At this point, the Cleveland Browns have Shedeur Sanders signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1027629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,6],"class_list":["post-1027628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117441197782714794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}