{"id":347371,"date":"2025-09-06T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347371\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:02:11","slug":"colorado-buffaloes-football-legend-shedeur-sanders-receives-confusing-browns-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347371\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders receives confusing Browns update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders receives confusing Browns update<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders is at risk of having his development stunted with the equivalent of a redshirt season in the pros, but he will reportedly be in the Cleveland Browns\u2019 long-term plans no matter what.<\/p>\n

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According to the Athletic’s Dianna Russini<\/a>, Sanders will only play during the 2025 season \u201cunless things get really weird\u201d in Cleveland \u2013 assuming that means injuries or a change of plans for Joe Flacco and\/or Dillon Gabriel. Sanders finished fourth in Kevin Stefanski\u2019s quarterback competition but is third on the depth chart after Kenny Pickett was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bleacher Report\u2019s Joseph Zucker<\/a> believes it could both be good for Sanders to sit out the season behind those two, citing Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson\u2019s trajectory in his three professional campaigns, and bad for the \u201cGrown QB\u201d optics-wise.<\/p>\n

\u201c Being the third-stringer isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Sanders’ development right now. Not every rookie quarterback is ready to play straight out of the gate, and rushing them onto the field can be counterproductive,\u201d Zucker wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, the Indianapolis Colts might’ve been better off effectively redshirting Anthony Richardson in 2023 instead of starting him in Week 1. Now into his third season, Richardson’s future in Indy is murky after he couldn’t beat out Daniel Jones to be QB1.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven the guys ahead of him are an aging Flacco and a 24-year-old rookie, the optics wouldn’t look great if Sanders is holding a clipboard all season.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the Browns wouldn’t have kept him on the active roster if they didn’t see any long-term potential in him.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it seems tough to follow Sanders\u2019 NFL trajectory, that\u2019s because it is. The Browns valued Gabriel enough to select him with a first-round pick had he stood over six feet tall. Cleveland has two 2026 first-round selections after the draft-night trade<\/a> of Sanders\u2019 Colorado teammate, Travis Hunter, to the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n

Sanders doesn\u2019t seem like the Browns\u2019 future after being selected with a fifth-round pick and never climbing out of last place in the team\u2019s QB competition.<\/p>\n

A long-term plan existing for him in Cleveland is a befuddling idea, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders receives confusing Browns update originally appeared on The Sporting News Colorado Buffaloes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[1504,86,85,54,2337,59,2772,6164,1033,7,392,125,562,62561,570,393,6,17,582,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-347371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-anthony-richardson","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-colorado-buffaloes","14":"tag-daniel-jones","15":"tag-dianna-russini","16":"tag-dillon-gabriel","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-indianapolis-colts","19":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","20":"tag-joe-flacco","21":"tag-joseph-zucker","22":"tag-kenny-pickett","23":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-shedeur-sanders","26":"tag-the-browns","27":"tag-travis-hunter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347371","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=347371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}