Ex-NFL star praises Shedeur Sanders for 'mental toughness' to bounce back from poor debut to beat Raiders

Shedeur Sanders volition person his 2nd vocation NFL commencement aboriginal this week erstwhile the Cleveland Browns instrumentality connected the San Francisco 49ers successful Week 13.

Sanders helped the Browns to a 24-10 triumph implicit the Las Vegas Raiders connected Sunday. Though helium didn’t dazzle successful his archetypal start, Sanders did capable to get the triumph and threw his archetypal touchdown walk successful the process.

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Las Vegas Raiders antiaircraft extremity Malcolm Koonce (51) sacks Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Candice Ward)

Trent Green, a Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowler successful his NFL career, touted Sanders’ efforts against the Raiders aft helium lone made 4 completions erstwhile helium came successful for an injured Dillon Gabriel successful Week 11 against the Baltimore Ravens.

"The information that helium was capable to travel backmost disconnected of that show helium had past week wherever helium was 4-of-16, it was a atrocious game," Green told Fox News Digital. "But you don’t get a batch of reps. You’re a young quarterback, you get thrown into a concern similar that. I emotion the mode that helium responded.

"You person to person intelligence toughness to beryllium capable to bash that. You’re successful a pugnacious environment. You’re trying to get a win. There’s a batch of unit that comes from the sanction connected the backmost of your jersey, and the information that there’s truthful overmuch attraction astir him arsenic a player, helium was capable to grip each that and got the win. I’m looking guardant to talking to him this week, survey much portion connected him and larn much astir him. And he’s got a San Francisco squad that’s coming successful there."

Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders responds to a question during a quality league aft an NFL shot crippled against the Baltimore Ravens successful Cleveland, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Green spoke to Fox News Digital days earlier he's acceptable to assistance motorboat Caesars Sportsbooks successful Missouri.

Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski stressed the request for continued betterment erstwhile helium spoke to reporters connected Monday.

"First commencement for immoderate young quarterback, you’re ever going to marque definite the cognition is however you privation it, and I thought by and ample was good," Stefanski said. "There’s things that we tin cleanable up and evidently that goes connected each of us.

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"Are determination things that helium tin bash better? Absolutely. We’ve already talked astir that with him. He has the mentality that helium volition marque the adjustments to the velocity of the game, marque the adjustments to what radical are giving us, to marque those improvements."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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