Browns execs raise eyebrows with reactions after drafting Shedeur Sanders following historic slide

The Cleveland Browns pulled the trigger connected taking Shedeur Sanders aft his historical descent successful the NFL Draft. 

But immoderate fans are skeptical astir the team's enthusiasm for the subordinate based connected the reactions of Browns enactment aft the selection. 

ESPN footage of Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski and wide manager Andrew Berry showed airy play claps with blank facial expressions successful the team's warfare country aft the prime of Sanders was announced. 

Berry slouched with a fractional frown.

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Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders speaks during a property league astatine the NFL shot scouting harvester Feb. 28, 2025, successful Indianapolis.  (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Many fans connected societal media questioned however enthusiastic squad brass really was astir taking the arguable prospect. 

"They look thrilled. Did idiosyncratic unit their hand?" 1 X idiosyncratic wrote successful effect to the footage. 

Another idiosyncratic expressed interest implicit Sanders perchance being connected a squad whose enactment doesn't worth him. 

"This is adjacent much disrespectful than NOT drafting him. No mode these guys dainty Shedeur fairly," the idiosyncratic wrote. 

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On bold professional adjacent suggested Berry and Stefanski gave a "reaction of shame."

"This is simply a absorption of shame, they are embarrassed that they decided to enactment successful this collusion, participated successful knowingly and evidently screwing this kid yet extremity up drafting him," that idiosyncratic wrote. 

Berry and Stefasnki aboriginal explained the enactment of Sanders to reporters successful a property conference. Berry suggested that drafting Sanders "wasn't needfully the plan" aft taking backmost Dillon Gabriel successful an earlier round, and helium didn't deliberation Sanders would beryllium disposable successful the 5th round. 

"It wasn't needfully the program going into the play to prime 2 quarterbacks, but, you know, arsenic we speech about, we bash judge successful champion subordinate available. We bash judge successful positional value. And we didn't needfully expect him to beryllium disposable successful the 5th round," Berry said. 

"So, we emotion adding contention to each presumption room. So, adding him to vie with the different guys who are already successful there, that was the due happening to do."

While discussing the strategy down drafting Sanders, Berry said it was thing Browns officials started to see entering the 3rd time of the draft. 

"It was something, going into time 3 of the draught with him inactive connected the board, it was a thought like, 'Well, you know, depending connected however acold helium goes, that would beryllium thing that we would beryllium funny successful perchance taking him disconnected the board,’" Berry said. 

Former Cleveland Browns Vice President of Football Operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, left, and existent GM Andrew Berry ticker the enactment from the sideline astatine grooming campy Aug. 27, 2021, astatine CrossCountry Mortgage Campus successful Berea, Ohio. (John Kuntz/Cleveland.com via AP)

"As names kept coming disconnected the board, and we saw however we were positioned, we conscionable felt similar the worth was there."

Berry added that the interrogation acquisition with Sanders was "positive" amid reports the backmost interviewed poorly for aggregate NFL teams.

Before Saturday, the narration betwixt the Browns and Sanders household wasn't each flattering compliments. 

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Shedeur's father, Colorado shot manager and NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, erstwhile suggested a young backmost should garbage to play for Cleveland successful 2018, the mode Eli Manning refused to play for the Chargers successful 2004. 

"I emotion what the Browns person done this offseason but if im a young QB ain't nary mode im going to Cleveland. I would propulsion a ELI MANNING If possible," Deion wrote successful a March 2018 Twitter post. 

However, Deion besides disputed the conception that Shedeur mightiness not play for the Browns aft a rumor surfaced past season. 

"A Lie don’t attraction who tells it. Please halt trying to go applicable by misrepresenting my son. God bless you," Deion wrote successful effect to a station circulating the rumor. 

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