Shedeur not worried over limited reps for Browns

BEREA, Ohio -- Shedeur Sanders said he's not reasoning astir the constricted signifier reps he's received arsenic the Cleveland Browns' four-way backmost contention is underway successful grooming camp.

Sanders was regarded arsenic 1 of the apical quarterbacks successful the 2025 NFL draught earlier amazingly falling to the 5th round, wherever Cleveland took him with the 144th pick. He has seemingly been QB4 connected the extent illustration down veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett and chap rookie Dillon Gabriel, who was selected successful the 3rd round.

Sanders is the lone backmost who has not been seen taking reps with the first-team discourtesy successful the offseason workout programme and done the archetypal 2 grooming campy practices.

"I don't deliberation that's my spot to answer, to springiness the reply to that," Sanders said Friday erstwhile asked wherefore helium thinks helium isn't getting reps with the first-team offense. "I consciousness similar that it's not successful my control, truthful I'm not going to deliberation astir that oregon adjacent person that successful my thought process of wherefore it is. There's a batch of radical who privation to person the accidental to beryllium astatine this level, and I'm present and I'm thankful to person the opportunity. So, whenever that is, that is."

He added: "It doesn't marque maine consciousness down oregon near retired due to the fact that I cognize who I americium arsenic a person. I cognize who I americium arsenic an idiosyncratic and I cognize what I could bring to this team. So, I tin ne'er consciousness little than immoderate circumstance."

Browns manager Kevin Stefanski said the backmost rotation would beryllium fluid during the archetypal week of grooming campy earlier reassessing the bid for Week 2. On Wednesday, Pickett took each of the first-team snaps successful 11-on-11 drills and connected Thursday, Pickett and Flacco divided the first-team reps successful squad drills.

"I don't cognize if there'll beryllium immoderate earth-shattering oregon earth-shaking changes [in the 2nd week of camp]," quarterbacks manager Bill Musgrave said Friday. "I deliberation it'll beryllium a batch much of the same. All 4 guys are truly making bully advancement and [offensive coordinator] Tommy [Rees] and Kevin are doing a large occupation of getting everybody their looks."

With a wide receiver country that has been stretched bladed due to the fact that of 4 quarterbacks needing reps, Sanders has thrown passes astatine times to members of the instrumentality unit arsenic the past successful enactment for idiosyncratic drills. Sanders, though, said he's unaffected by it.

"It doesn't truly faze me," said Sanders, the lad of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. "We came each the mode from an HBCU to a Power 5 and present we're here. So astatine this point, if you look there's thing that's a challenge, I would say."

Sanders besides commented connected the 2 offseason speeding tickets helium received successful Cleveland, saying helium hopes "everyone learns from my concern to not thrust accelerated astatine all."