Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders is either QB3 or QB4 on the Cleveland Browns this season. If he gets lucky, the team could find a trade for Kenny Pickett, but even then, Sanders is behind rookie Dillon Gabriel and QB1 Joe Flacco on the team’s depth chart.
This has not sat well with Sanders’ supporters. The Athletic’s Ted Nguyen used the “insane” label to describe their rage.
Sanders, however, is seen as having handled it well.
“Sanders has handled himself pretty well after the draft but everyone else is going insane,” Nguyen wrote.
Nguyen was responding to an X user claiming Sanders was given a different playbook and worse protection. That was far from the only conspiratorial post that went viral on Saturday after the Browns’ preseason finale, a 19-17 win over the Los Angeles Rams.
Former ESPN and CBS analyst Josina Anderson raged over Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski's decision not to play Sanders the final two minutes of the game after struggling during his second-half reps against the Rams. Anderson also made an implication about Stefanski’s lack of protection for the “Grown QB.”
“Unless Shedeur Sanders' oblique is bothering him to the point of not playing, he should've had the 2-minute situation to see what he could do with it---despite the protection woes since he entered the game as the 3rd quarterback today,” Anderson wrote.
“Oh, and there was no need to see Joe Flacco play today and take up valuable evaluation reps.”
Anderson later bashed Stefanski’s decision not to play Sanders in Preseason Week 2 against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Regardless of what anyone has said online, Sanders has been a team player the entire summer. We’ll see what his future holds while buried on the Browns’ depth chart.