Browns coach says not to 'look into' Dillon Gabriel taking first snaps over Shedeur Sanders

The Cleveland Browns began rookie minicamp Friday, and rookie quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders took the tract for the archetypal time. 

Gabriel was selected successful the 3rd round, portion Sanders was picked successful the 5th circular aft an unprecedented slide. Gabriel received the archetypal snaps of the day, but caput manager Kevin Stefanski cautioned astir speechmaking excessively overmuch into that.

"Yeah, I wouldn’t look into anything," Stefanski said, via a transcript from the Browns. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) watches arsenic backmost Dillon Gabriel (5) throws during rookie minicamp astatine the Cleveland Browns grooming analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

"I deliberation you’ll spot the full weekend, going done the spring. I mean, we don’t wage excessively adjacent attraction to who’s successful that archetypal snap."

Stefanski said helium thought "both guys did a bully job" but did not perpetrate to who would beryllium getting the archetypal snaps successful Saturday’s practice. 

The Browns caput manager emphasized not to look "too overmuch into" who receives the archetypal snaps, and that the squad has a plan. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) works with quarterbacks manager Bill Musgrave during an NFL rookie minicamp astatine the Cleveland Browns grooming analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

"There’s a batch of clip betwixt present and September, truthful we’ll person a plan. But it’s an all-encompassing evaluation. It’s not thing that it’s conscionable based connected the signifier reps. There’s a batch that goes into it," Stefanski said. 

The Browns person 5 quarterbacks connected their roster with nary wide Week 1 starter. Deshaun Watson ruptured his Achilles tendon again successful January aft helium underwent country connected that aforesaid tendon successful October 2024, and his presumption for the upcoming play is successful doubt. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders leaves the tract aft the archetypal time of NFL rookie minicamp astatine the Cleveland Browns grooming analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

The Browns acquired Kenny Pickett successful a commercialized with the Philadelphia Eagles and signed Joe Flacco to a one-year declaration earlier the NFL Draft. With the additions of Gabriel and Sanders to an already packed backmost room, it remains to beryllium seen who volition get the Week 1 nod.  

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