{"id":121275,"date":"2025-06-11T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/121275\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:56:10","slug":"shedeur-sanders-reacts-deion-sanders-health-status-keeps-focus-on-his-nfl-future-at-browns-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/121275\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders reacts Deion Sanders’ health status, keeps focus on his NFL future at Browns camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado coach Deion Sanders is “feeling well” this week amid undisclosed health issues<\/a>, a situation the family is not comfortable getting into publicly. Shortly after Deion Sanders Jr. revealed on a YouTube stream that he’ll let his father update the details, new\u00a0Cleveland Browns<\/a> quarterback Shedeur Sanders<\/a> was asked about the situation after practice.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on,” Sanders said. “I’m here not to talk about Pops and them. I’m here [to be] quarterback of the Cleveland Browns.”<\/p>\n

One of the players in a four-quarterback competition for the Browns this summer<\/a>, the fifth-round pick and former All-Big 12 star for the Buffaloes is keeping family matters private.<\/p>\n

“I’m focused on learning this playbook and everything I got to do to be the most successful quarterback I can be and be the best teammate I can be,” Sanders said. “Outside of that, I don’t really have no thoughts or really opinions, outside of this game. Appreciate y’all.”<\/p>\n

Last month, Sanders’ first media appearance since spring camp<\/a> came with former NFL<\/a> star Asante Samuel on the “Say What Needs to be Said” podcast. Sanders has dealt with recent serious medical issues, including\u00a0emergency surgery in 2023<\/a>\u00a0to treat persistent blood clots in his legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And prior to that, Sanders had two toes amputated in 2021 during his coaching tenure at Jackson State due to more blood clotting issues.<\/p>\n

“I’ve done no media. I’ve done nothing for a minute,” Sanders said in May with Samuel. “So, coming on with you is something. I ain’t been in front of nobody for a minute. I lost about 14 pounds. I’m coming back, but I needed this.”<\/p>\n

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said last month\u00a0he “likes everything about Shedeur”<\/a>\u00a0and was impressed by his work ethic early as a rookie<\/a>. He’s had similar things to say\u00a0about Dillon Gabriel<\/a>, a third-round pick out of Oregon and former Heisman finalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sanders is getting a chance to prove his worth in minicamp as a “value” selection of sorts for the Browns. He was a\u00a0light acquisition cost as a fifth-round pick<\/a>, but Sanders sparked enough interest from the franchise’s front office to warrant a second quarterback selection in April.<\/p>\n

The Browns never planned on drafting two quarterbacks this cycle, according to general manager Andrew Berry.<\/p>\n

“We do believe in best player available, we do believe in positional value, and we didn’t necessarily expect him to be available in the fifth round,” Berry said earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado coach Deion Sanders is “feeling well” this week amid undisclosed health issues, a situation the family is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,331,1033,7,570,6,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-121275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-dillon-gabriel","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kenny-pickett","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114664609900114533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121275","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=121275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}