The Cleveland Browns might have their best quarterback situation in decades. They might also have their worst.
With four quarterbacks battling for the starting job in September, the room is split between two veterans and two rookie draft picks. Of the two rookies, Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, a fifth-round pick, is seemingly already the odd man out through rookie minicamp, voluntary OTAs and mandatory minicamp.
If that's the case, he could be on the move before the season gets underway, so the Browns can recoup some draft capital with him.
Heavy Sports' Owen Crisafulli speculated that Cleveland could move Sanders to ... get this ... the Pittsburgh Steelers, for ... get this ... a third-round pick.
Umm, what?
It's all crazy talk, but I guess nothing at this point is out of the question for the Browns and Steelers this offseason.
“Sanders entered the 2025 draft with expectations of being a first-round pick. Instead, he fell all the way to the fifth round, where the Browns eventually traded up to select him with the No. 144 pick," he wrote. "Sanders finds himself in a quarterback room consisting of Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel, who was selected by the team in the third round of the draft.
“With Watson re-rupturing his Achilles back in January, Cleveland’s starting quarterback job is wide open. Sanders has reportedly impressed Browns coaches early on, and he appears to have as good of a shot as everyone else at becoming the Week 1 starter. However, it’s worth noting that there’s a bit of a logjam at the position. Given that they selected Gabriel before Sanders, it’s clear that Cleveland believes more in the former Oregon Ducks passer to become their quarterback of the future.”
It seems crazy to think that the Steelers would spend a third-round pick on a fifth-round player, especially so soon after the draft. It also seems unthinkable that they'd go get Sanders - or any rookie - so soon after inking Aaron Rodgers.
But here we are.