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Browns' Shedeur Sanders to start at QB1: Answering key questions about the move
Rex Ryan questions why Shedeur Sanders looked so out of place playing in his NFL debut for the Browns. (1:42)
Editor's note: This story originally published on Wednesday, Nov. 19, when the Browns named Shedeur Sanders the starter for Cleveland's Week 12 game at Las Vegas.
Since the Cleveland Browns selected quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft, the team has brought him along like a developmental player. The fourth quarterback added during the offseason, Sanders was QB4 on the depth chart — behind veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel — during training camp and didn't receive a single first-team rep throughout the summer.
Deion Sanders is attending Shedeur Sanders’ first start for Browns in Las Vegas
As he makes his first career start on Sunday, Shedeur Sanders will have some familial support in the crowd.
Via Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, Deion Sanders, Shedeur’s father, is at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas as the Browns play the Raiders on Sunday.
The current head coach at Colorado, Sanders’ Buffaloes lost to Arizona State 42-17 on Saturday.
Earlier in the week, Deion Sanders told reporters in Colorado that he was contemplating making the trip.
“You don’t want to be his distraction,” Deion Sanders said, via Cabot. “But then you think, you know he came all the way up here to see you? So that’s even a shorter trip to go see him.
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How 'Hungry Dawgs Period' helped Browns QB Shedeur Sanders prepare for first career start
The first time the public saw Shedeur Sanders on the field in an NFL game was on Nov. 16, when he took the field in relief of an injured Dillon Gabriel to try to engineer a last-second win against the Ravens.
Yet behind the scenes, with few watching, the Browns fifth-round rookie has been working for the opportunity that he'll get Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders, when he makes his first career start with fellow rookie Gabriel out due to a concussion.
Bailey Zappe was elevated from the practice squad this week to be Sanders' backup.
Here is how Sanders has prepared for such an opportunity this season, along with the rest of the younger players on the Browns and their practice-squad brethren.
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