Cleveland Browns followers and different members of the soccer group have been understandably excited to be taught that rookie Shedeur Sanders will function the Browns’ beginning quarterback for his or her preseason opener on the Carolina Panthers on Friday night time.
In the course of the newest version of the “Orange and Brown Discuss Podcast,” Dan Labbe and Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Vendor despatched considerably of a warning to those that are hoping that Sanders may bolster his odds of rising because the Browns’ Week 1 starter with a formidable exhibiting versus Carolina.
“I’ve at all times believed with this (Browns) regime…what occurs in preseason video games type of goes over right here on this bucket. However what they actually care about is joint practices, what occurs in practices. All of that stuff,” Labbe stated.
Cabot famous that Sanders “labored with the backups” throughout the Browns’ joint apply with the Panthers on Wednesday. That signifies the 2025 fifth-round draft choose stays Cleveland’s fourth-choice choice at quarterback heading into the Carolina recreation.
Sanders is beginning towards the Panthers solely as a result of 2025 third-round draft choose Dillon Gabriel and presumed backup Kenny Pickett are working to totally get well from hamstring accidents they picked up throughout coaching camp. In the meantime, retailers reminiscent of FanDuel Sportsbook continued to record veteran Joe Flacco because the betting favourite (-220 odds) to begin Cleveland’s Week 1 recreation towards the Cincinnati Bengals as of Thursday morning. To match, Sanders was at +2500 odds to get the nod for the Bengals matchup.
“Right here’s why everybody wants to recollect these are preseason video games,” Cabot continued. “You aren’t getting game-planned for. No person’s looking for your weaknesses. No person’s making an attempt to make you do one thing which you can’t do very nicely in any respect. That’s not what occurs in these video games. …And that’s the reason preseason, even the video games, might be such a mirage. And it’s important to be so cautious with what you assume you’re seeing and what you assume you realize.”
A Thursday report shared that these operating the Browns do not but consider Sanders is “prepared to guide a franchise” and as an alternative view the previous Colorado star as “a fifth-round rookie and the fourth quarterback on their depth chart.” It appears like that will not change no matter how Sanders performs at Carolina’s Financial institution of America Stadium.
