Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders was unable to take part in Wednesday’s joint observe with the Philadelphia Eagles due to an indirect damage that seemingly will maintain him from taking part in in Saturday’s preseason recreation at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Area.
Sanders was capable of spend a while on a golf cart with Eagles starter Jalen Hurts. Following the observe, Hurts provided Sanders some helpful recommendation when requested about that interplay.
“Yeah, I maintain the dialog intimate,” Hurts mentioned, as shared by Cayden Steele of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. “We had a really prolonged dialog. He got here to me and simply needed to speak. I’m all the time there, as I mentioned earlier, giving my perspective on what I see and the way I’ve gone about issues. In the end, it takes a substantial amount of endurance and laborious work and a way of resilience. You bought to need it. You bought to need it. So I’m supporting him from the place I’m and wishing him nothing however the very best along with his alternatives.”
Hurts is aware of just a little bit about what Sanders is coping with this summer time. The Eagles chosen Hurts within the second spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft, however allegedly regarded into buying both Deshaun Watson or Russell Wilson in March 2022. Hurts later guided Philadelphia to Tremendous Bowl LVII in February 2023, and he then obtained a five-year contract extension reportedly price as much as $255M with $179.3M assured that spring.
Nonetheless, Eagles broad receiver A.J. Brown appeared to criticize Hurts after the quarterback handed for simply 108 yards in a recreation final December. Whereas Hurts in the end earned Tremendous Bowl LIX MVP honors after he turned the primary quarterback
since Joe Montana (1985) to file two-plus passing touchdowns, 50-plus dashing yards and a dashing rating in a Tremendous Bowl, some nonetheless see him as extra of a recreation supervisor moderately than as an elite quarterback.
As for Sanders, he fell to the fifth spherical of this yr’s draft earlier than the Browns took a flier on the previous Colorado star. Sanders performed nicely in his preseason debut on Aug. 8, however he however remained fourth on the Cleveland depth chart earlier than he suffered an damage that doubtlessly may finish his preseason.
“There’s a way of obligation to be your self, and that’s who I’m, to be sincere and real in expressing how I obtained to the place I’m at the moment,” Hurts added throughout his feedback, in keeping with Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Vendor. “It wasn’t a simple journey. It’s all the time going to current some challenges, however I’ll proceed to be who I’m, proceed to hold myself in a humble approach, and I’m all the time placing the work first. I’m conscious of that. I do know that’s nonetheless a torch that I maintain. It’s one thing I respect and embrace and settle for it for what it’s. On the similar time, I all the time put my concentrate on how I might be the very best I might be, and hopefully my actions can communicate louder than something.”
Veteran Joe Flacco is on monitor to function the Browns’ beginning quarterback for his or her Week 1 matchup towards the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 7. Flacco’s play and his well being may decide if Sanders takes one other in-game snap as a rookie.
