Shedeur Sanders gets first Browns start against Raiders in Las Vegas

Shedeur Sanders volition go the Cleveland Browns’ 42nd starting backmost since 1999 erstwhile helium leads them retired against the Las Vegas Raiders connected Sunday.

Head manager Kevin Stefanski turned to Shedeur while Dillon Gabriel remains successful the NFL’s concussion protocol. The 2025 fifth-round pick, lad of Pro Football Hall of Famer and Colorado manager Deion Sanders, saw his archetypal enactment past week against the Baltimore Ravens and completed 4 of 16 passes for 47 yards with an interception.

Those snaps came without immoderate erstwhile enactment with the starting offense. Until present Shedeur has been moving scout team, not huddling with the players helium volition nonstop successful Las Vegas.

"I'm genuinely excited for that, knowing that I person a portion of [the] discourtesy and a accidental truthful and however things acceptable my oculus and spot the players precisely wherever they request to be," Shedeur said.

Cleveland planned to bring him on slowly. General manager Andrew Berry erstwhile compared Sanders’ modulation from assemblage to the NFL to being "fluent successful English and present you person to larn Mandarin." However, Gabriel’s struggles and caput wounded person forced that program to change.

Dealing with adversity connected and disconnected the field

Sanders’ promotion besides comes aft a jarring infinitesimal distant from football. While helium was connected the tract against Baltimore, burglars deed his northeast Ohio home, with authorities estimating $200,000 successful spot stolen.

"Mentally, emotionally, I'm successful a large spot overall," helium said. "My beingness is ever going to beryllium adversity. Things aren't ever going to spell arsenic planned, but I would accidental I'm prepared for everything."

He knows the instrumentality basal is demanding speedy results from yet different caller quarterback.

"I cognize our fans person a batch of expectations and hope," Sanders said. "With the circumstances, everything got to beryllium sped up and that's great. I similar unit successful life. I'm conscionable excited for everything. So, I consciousness similar I'm the guy. I cognize I'm the guy, but you conscionable person to beryllium capable to see."