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From the vantage point of the New York Post’s Matt Ehalt, Colorado Buffaloes football legend and the Cleveland Browns’ fifth-round pick in the 2025 NFL draft, Shedeur Sanders, and New England Patriots quarterback Tommy DeVito are in the same discussion of the most-discussed third-stringers in the league. DeVito was released in late August for final roster cuts.
Ehalt was responding to the rumor that Sanders is not even playing on the scout team, which Browns QB coach Billy Musgrave has refuted.
“Sanders is the most-discussed third-string quarterback in the league, with perhaps former Giants backup Tommy DeVito only in the discussion,” Ehalt wrote.
Sanders is truly in a discussion of his own when it comes to reserves getting attention in the NFL. DeVito’s brief stint as the New York Giants’ starter, aided by advisors who were almost caricatures of Italian culture, was not the story of the sports world that Sanders’ infamous draft slide was.
Shedeur had, according to Nielsen, a total of 2.237 million viewers watch his preseason debut with the Browns. It was the third most-watched preseason game on the NFL Network ever. Not to mention, as Ehalt mentions, Sanders had the fifth most popular NFL jersey, and the most popular among rookies.
A fifth-round pick did this, mind you. Perhaps there’s some local bias here in comparing the relevance of these two.
DeVito was the right guy at the wrong time for the Giants, helping them win games they probably shouldn’t have and causing New York to lose the chance to draft Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye. He’s now another body in the Patriots’ QB room, with nowhere near the coverage in Foxborough that Sanders has in Berea.
The jury is out on Sanders, but at the very least, his draft fall and college career put him in a different class than an undrafted player who is already less of a story now that he’s not in the New York market.
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