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Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski believes Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders is far from a finished product. After the Browns’ rookie minicamp, Sanders started getting QB1 hype ahead of training camp.
Stefanski sees a lot of things for Sanders to improve on. Sanders’ work ethic was not one of them.
“None of these guys are finished products, and Shedeur certainly has things he can work on,” Stefanski said on “We Need To Talk.” “But in terms of the person, in terms of the kid who’s willing to work, I think that’s who we’re getting.
“We’re getting a guy that really is not so concerned about where he landed in this draft, but he is willing to put in the work and that’s what we’re going to do.”
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky claimed that Sanders and fellow rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel had a good chance to usurp Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett as the starter at some point during the 2025 season.
Only if they played well enough to avoid hot seat conversations for Stefanski and GM Andrew Berry, though.
“I would do everything I can to start either Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel this year. I would only start Joe Flacco or Kenny, and probably Joe, if, ‘Oh my gosh, this is a disaster.’ And if you're Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry, their head coach and general manager, you go, ‘Hey, if one of these two kids starts, we're going to get fired,’ if it's that bad throughout the preseason,” Orlovsky said on the Pat McAfee Show Monday.
“There's not a ton of benefit, for me, starting Joe Flacco, because it doesn't answer anything with the potential of next year's class and them figuring out long term at least what's the situation. So, I would start one of those two rookies.”
Sanders doesn’t sound ready. Yet. But if Stefanski’s word is bond, it sounds like he could be in due time.
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