{"id":732442,"date":"2026-02-06T02:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:14:20","slug":"tim-hasselbeck-questions-if-shedeur-sanders-is-an-nfl-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732442\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hasselbeck questions if Shedeur Sanders is an NFL backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hasselbeck made it abundantly clear what he thought of Shedeur Sanders after his first season in the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former quarterback said during an appearance on ESPN\u2019s \u201cGet Up\u201d this week that he believes the Browns won\u2019t be building around Sanders and questioned whether he even would be a second-stringer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, and they won\u2019t. I mean that\u2019s just the reality of it,\u201d Hasselbeck said. \u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be on the roster because he\u2019s on a rookie contract, or at least he\u2019ll be on the training camp roster. He\u2019s on a rookie contract from a year ago, much like Dillon Gabriel. I would think the Browns would add somebody with starter experience to compete because there\u2019s just no way with just probably what the evaluation has been of Shedeur as a player in the pros now, as well as how he came into the league, that they would give him the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, quite frankly, I don\u2019t think he would even enter training camp as the second guy on the roster. So I don\u2019t think that\u2019s how they\u2019ll operate. It\u2019s hard to become a head coach in the NFL and if you do, you\u2019ve got to try to win with a quarterback. And most guys, including [coach] Todd Monken, aren\u2019t going to try to do it with somebody like Shedeur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Hasselbeck a career backup QB was talking reckless about Shedeur.  Damien Woody was talking crazy too.  He was quiet went Rex Ryan was talking bad about Shedeur a while back.  Jeff Saturday was the only solid one \ud83d\udcaf.  Talking about a young rookie is Crazy Nasty Wild Work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qF5QmxfvJH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qF5QmxfvJH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MrWhatsGoingOn (@MrWhatsGoingOn1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrWhatsGoingOn1\/status\/2019151444562133047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38403996\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2259647087.jpg\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders #12 of the Cleveland Browns during the AFC Pro Bowl practice at Moscone Center South on February 02, 2026 in San Francisco, California. \" class=\"wp-image-38403996\"  \/>Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders throws a pass during AFC Pro Bowl practice at Moscone Center South on Feb. 2, 2026 in San Francisco. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Hasselbeck didn\u2019t stop there, going on to indicate that he doesn\u2019t believe Sanders has a starting job in his NFL future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are things that he does at the position extremely well that you need to be able to do well to play in the National Football League,\u201d Hasselbeck said. \u201cI actually think that\u2019s the good side of it. The bad side of it for him, I just think physically there are limitations that he has as a player that I don\u2019t know that anyone is building around that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The career journeyman did say that he could see Sanders playing as a backup for a long period of time in the NFL and getting some starting chances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.65722656;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38403997\" width=\"388\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2916092.jpg\" alt=\"Quarterback Tim Hasselbeck #8 of the Washington Redskins sets to throw during the game against the Chicago Bears on December 21, 2003 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.\" class=\"wp-image-38403997\"  \/>Tim Hasselbeck throws a pass during the Redskins\u2019 road loss to the Bears on Dec. 21, 2003 at Soldier Field. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t a single team of the 32 that would look at him right now and be like, \u2018Yup, I want to build around that guy,\u2019\u201d Hasslebeck said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that to be demeaning or mean, it\u2019s just the reality of who he actually is as a player and how he is viewed \u2026 around the league.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is coming off a rookie season in which he played in eight games and started seven, throwing for 1,400\u00a0yards and seven touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0eo-rFTxXOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monken told reporters Tuesday<\/a> during his introductory press conference that he was looking forward to working with Sanders, but that his QB 1 situation was \u201cstill to be determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I excited about Shedeur? Am I excited about all the quarterbacks in the room? Am I excited to coach this football team? Absolutely. I can\u2019t wait for them to get back and for us to get started,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Hasselbeck made it abundantly clear what he thought of Shedeur Sanders after his first season in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,7,6,17,9,34259],"class_list":{"0":"post-732442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-shedeur-sanders","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tim-hasselbeck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116021276383558111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732442","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=732442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}