Shedeur Sanders will now attempt to climb the Cleveland Browns quarterback depth chart after his NFL Draft journey concluded with a fourth-round selection. The rookie currently sits fourth on the team’s quarterback roster.
“The Cleveland Browns headliner is their 4th QB on the roster who will get the least amount of reps and opportunity in the group. That’s a set up for dysfunction. That’s the Browns,” Robert Griffin III wrote.
Sanders endured a lengthy wait during the draft, remaining available through all three days before Cleveland selected him.
Adding to his draft weekend frustration, Sanders received a prank call on the second night when he was still undrafted.
Some NFL insiders suggested Sanders may have intentionally performed poorly in pre-draft team meetings.
“At some of those [combine] meetings with certain teams that maybe Shedeur Sanders didn’t really want to go to… I was told that he more or less sandbagged in those interviews… I don’t know if he didn’t take them seriously, what it was, but he did not give it his all in some of those interviews,” reported Jonathan Jones.
At the NFLPA Rookie Premiere event over the weekend, rookies received their official NFL jerseys for the first time. When Washington Commanders quarterback Cam Ward, the first overall pick, approached Sanders for a jersey swap, the former Colorado quarterback declined.
“Nah. I gotta sell it bruh. I gotta have some type of money. S**t, I’m already down,” Sanders told Ward.
Sanders walked away without completing the exchange with Ward, who has been characterized as one of the least discussed first overall selections in recent draft history.
