Interesting New Details Emerge On Shedeur Sanders’ Future With The Cleveland Browns
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Shedeur Sanders will reportedly get an extended look behind center as he tries to cement himself as a starting-caliber quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
With fellow rookie signal-caller Dillon Gabriel in concussion protocol, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski named Shedeur Sanders the starting quarterback for Week 12 against the Las Vegas Raiders.
Sanders won his first NFL start, but struggled in a Week 13 blowout loss at home to the San Francisco 49ers. Stefanski, however, has already named Sanders the starting quarterback for Week 14 against the Tennessee Titans.
And according to a new report, it sounds like the QB1 job belongs to the 23-year-old Sanders the rest of the way.
During an appearance on 92.3 The Fan, Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot said she expects Shedeur Sanders to finish out the season as the Browns’ starting quarterback.
“I don’t think you’re going to see Dillon Gabriel on the field (again) this season, unless Shedeur has to come out of the game for one reason or another…I think that it’s going to be Shedeur the rest of the way, because I think they do see something in him. And they want to know, do they need to draft a quarterback in April?”
The Browns opened the season with 40-year-old Joe Flacco as their starting quarterback. But after four lackluster starts, Flacco was traded to the AFC North rival Cincinnati Bengals, who needed a QB after Joe Burrow’s turf toe injury.
Gabriel started the next six games before getting concussed in Week 11 against the Baltimore Ravens. He went 1-5 and had seven touchdowns against two interceptions.
Shedeur Sanders Has An Opportunity To Prove The Doubters Wrong
Anxious Cleveland fans had to wait a while for Sanders to finally take the field. Debate all you want if Kevin Stefanski was right to start Flacco and then Gabriel over Sanders beforehand, but there’s no changing the past.
From what Cabot is reporting, it appears that it’ll take an injury or a horrific drop in production for Sanders to lose the starting job. In other words, he’s got a golden opportunity to prove the critics wrong and show that he shouldn’t have waited until round five to hear his name at the draft.
Sanders doesn’t have much to work with, as No. 1 receiver Jerry Jeudy is enduring a frustrating season. So if he can show the flashes we saw at Colorado with a lackluster supporting cast, Sanders just might lock down the QB1 job for 2026.
