Shedeur Sanders is hard at work with the Cleveland Browns, looking to earn the backup job for the upcoming season. While initially expected to be a first-round pick and a potential first overall pick, Sanders ended up falling all the way to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
He also ended up being picked by the one franchise his father, Deion Sanders, had publicly stated he wouldn’t allow his son to play for. Now, they’re his only shot at staying with the pros.
This week, during the Browns’ training camp, he earned some plaudits from the media for not allowing his famous last name from sucking all the attention away from his teammates. On Friday, Cleveland Browns insider Tony Grossi shared that Shedeur Sanders stopped his interviews in the media tent to allow his teammates to finish their drills. Specifically, Sanders avoided interrupting the drills of Jerome Baker.
“It’s a respect thing. I know a lot of people want the content I’m going to produce. It was important he gets everything he needs to say out and everybody captures what he has.” Sanders said to the press
Shedeur Sanders politely paused start of his interview in media tent until LB Jerome Baker was done.
‘It’s a respect thing. I know a lot of people want the content I’m going to produce. It was important he gets everything he needs to say out and everybody captures what he has.— Tony Grossi (@TonyGrossi) July 25, 2025
This kind of behavior can do wonders for Shedeur Sanders’s public persona, as he comes with an aura of bravado and cockiness that’s associated with his father and the Colorado program as a whole.
Allegedly, the reason why Sanders fell so far in the NFL Draft is that teams came away disappointed with his interviews during the NFL Combine. According to reports, one NFL coach thought he was “brash” and “arrogant.”
Shedeur Sanders is not afraid of having limited snaps during this training camp
Shedeur Sanders is in the most crowded quarterback room in the league. The Browns also drafted Dillon Gabriel in 2025 and brought Kenny Pickett and Super Bowl champion Joe Flacco through free agency. Let’s not forget that DeShaun Watson is still on the team’s roster, although he was recently placed on the PUD (Physically Unable to Perform) list as he continues to recover from an injury to his Achilles heel.
During this training camp, it seems like Shedeur Sanders has become the de facto QB4 of the Browns. He is yet to do any reps with the first team, but he doesn’t seem bothered by it:
“I don’t think that’s my place to answer, to give the answer to that,” Sanders said Friday when asked why he thinks he isn’t getting reps with the first-team offense…I feel like that it’s not in my control, so I’m not going to think about that or even have that in my thought process of why it is. There’s a lot of people who want to have the opportunity to be at this level, and I’m here and I’m thankful to have the opportunity. So, whenever that is, that is.”
Going into 2025, it seems like the starting job will likely go to the veteran Joe Flacco. Sanders has to play the long game if he wants to be the Cleveland Browns quarterback someday.
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