Shedeur Sanders enters crowded quarterback room as he starts Browns career

Shedeur Sanders was the 144th prime of the NFL Draft arsenic the Cleveland Browns added him to their extent illustration successful the 5th circular connected Saturday afternoon.

The escaped autumn lasted longer than expected, but Sanders yet recovered a location connected the 3rd day, starting the travel to go the team’s starting backmost astatine immoderate constituent during the 2025 season.

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Colorado Buffaloes backmost Shedeur Sanders, #2, earlier the crippled against the North Dakota State Bison astatine Folsom Field successful Boulder, Colorado, connected Aug. 29, 2024. (Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports)

He volition articulation a backmost country that has Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco and chap rookie Dillon Gabriel. Deshaun Watson’s presumption successful 2025 is murky astatine champion aft re-injuring his Achilles successful the offseason. Watson suffered an Achilles teardrop past October.

Browns wide manager Andrew Berry divulged his expectations for each backmost the squad brought successful during the offseason.

"We expect each subordinate to compete. Simple arsenic that," helium said.

Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski was asked however helium was going to guarantee each of the 4 steadfast quarterbacks were going to get a just shot.

"We’ve talked astir it. I mean there’s ways to bash some I think," helium said. "Obviously you whitethorn not disagreement them 25, 25, 25, but we consciousness truly assured that we’ll person a program that is just to each subordinate and just to the squad arsenic well."

The Browns acquired Pickett successful the offseason successful a commercialized with the Philadelphia Eagles. He served arsenic a backup for Jalen Hurts with the Eagles and received a ringing erstwhile the squad won the Super Bowl implicit the Kansas City Chiefs successful February. He antecedently started with the Pittsburgh Steelers aft the squad selected him successful the archetypal circular of the 2022 draft.

Cleveland brought Flacco backmost aft helium went to the Indianapolis Colts successful 2024. He took implicit for an injured Watson successful 2023 and helped pb the Browns to the playoffs. Flacco won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens successful 2012.

Cleveland Browns backmost Deshaun Watson, #4, is carted disconnected the tract aft being injured successful the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals connected Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, successful Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)

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The Browns selected Gabriel successful the 3rd circular connected Friday. He played his assemblage shot astatine UCF, Oklahoma and Oregon. Last twelvemonth with the Ducks, helium had 3,857 passing yards and 30 touchdown passes. He was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. He besides holds the FBS grounds for astir touchdown passes thrown successful a career.

Berry explained wherefore the squad decided to instrumentality 2 quarterbacks successful this year’s draft.

"I deliberation conscionable similar I could astir apt accidental the program wasn’t indispensable to instrumentality 2 moving backs. Like, you envision however the draught could perchance play out, and past you conscionable truly set to what’s connected the board," Berry said. And similar I said, similar we don’t truly spell into the draught saying okay, like, ‘hey, present are our needs and we’re conscionable going to prime players astatine request positions.’

National squad backmost Dillon Gabriel of Oregon, #8, pauses aft signifier during Senior Bowl signifier for the National squad astatine Hancock Whitney Stadium successful Mobile, Alabama, connected Jan. 28, 2025. (Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)

"If you bash that’s typically however you marque mistakes. So, determination is simply a small spot of a travel to the play due to the fact that the committee does instrumentality antithetic twists and turns arsenic you go. Some expected, immoderate unexpected and, ultimately, we effort and bash everything successful our powerfulness to maximize the interaction of the picks we person successful aggregate. And portion of the crushed you person to bash that is being flexible."

Sanders volition person an uphill conflict successful an effort to attain the starting occupation – and a roster spot – erstwhile the play begins officially aboriginal this year. However, it is acold from impossible.

"I cognize I’m going to acceptable successful perfectly," helium told reporters. "I consciousness similar it’s archetypal getting in, showing respect to the vets, showing them I’m present acceptable to work. Show the coaches and person them understand, I’m present acceptable to work. So they could really recognize the existent me.

Cleveland Browns backmost Joe Flacco, #15, throws the shot against the Chicago Bears during the archetypal 4th astatine Cleveland Browns Stadium connected Dec. 17, 2023. (Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports)

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Kenny Pickett calls a play during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Dallas Cowboys connected Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024 successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

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"That’s what I’m genuinely thankful to have, is the accidental for radical to really spot the existent maine and not beryllium capable to spot worldly that could beryllium existent oregon not. That’s what I’m astir excited astir being successful the gathering and of people the staff, the cafeteria [staff], everything was extreme, the radical determination were genuine. It was existent cool. So I near that sojourn knowing that if that was the spot for me, I would consciousness existent comfy with what they person successful place."

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