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Inside the Browns' decision to draft Shedeur Sanders

BEREA, Ohio -- Minutes before the 144th overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft is announced Saturday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry FaceTimes Shedeur Sanders -- a call that finally ends one of the more surprising draft slides in recent memory.

Sanders has exchanged his flashy attire for a more casual outfit. On Thursday night, the glitzy opener of the three-day draft, he wore a black leather jacket and large diamond pendant -- each carrying his signature logo, a dollar sign with a superscript "2" -- in anticipation of hearing his name called in the first round during an extravagant watch party with family and friends back home in Canton, Texas.