The Cleveland Browns plan to provide Shedeur Sanders the beginning at quarterback of their preseason opener Friday on the Carolina Panthers, Cleveland.com and ESPN reported Tuesday.
The information comes simply in the future after Cleveland listed Sanders as its QB4 on the unofficial depth chart for the week and reportedly signed free agent QB Tyler Huntley.
Nonetheless, Kenny Pickett and Sanders’ fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel are each coping with hamstring accidents, and the crew’s different quarterback, 40-year-old Joe Flacco, doesn’t have a lot to show in a preseason setting.
It’s unclear how extreme Pickett’s and Gabriel’s accidents are. Sanders and Huntley could cut up the workload at Carolina if the Browns don’t plan to play their different quarterbacks.
Sanders, 23, was extensively anticipated to be a first-round draft choose and one of many first quarterbacks chosen final April. As a substitute, he dropped to the fifth spherical, the place the Browns drafted him 144th general – two rounds after they drafted Gabriel from Oregon.
After a prolific school profession enjoying for his father Deion Sanders at Jackson State and Colorado, Shedeur Sanders is battling for a roster spot. As of Monday, Sanders was the one QB but to be given first-team reps.
