With the Browns trading Joe Flacco, rookie Shedeur Sanders is now one snap away from playing on Sunday afternoons. No longer the third-string, emergency quarterback, he is the direct backup to fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel. And perhaps that was part of the plan all along, strengthening a Raporeport from last week.
“The expectation is that Sanders will play at some point this season when he’s ready”, Ian Rapoport wrote, explaining why the Browns kept him as the third-string quarterback, rather than the backup. “When he does play, it would be with a full week of practice and a game plan built for him”.