Ex-CU Buff Shedeur Sanders being done right by Browns coach Kevin Stefanski

Even before Shedeur Sanders' improbable tumble to the fifth round of the NFL Draft in April, there were conspiracy theories that the Colorado product was being all but blackballed from the NFL.

Why? Well, no one posed a coherent theory, but it created the notion that Shedeur was an underdog, and the league's greater power was unjustly manipulating his future.

It was clear from the jump that Shedeur's slide was a combination of his brashness and ignorance, and more importantly, his inability to break down defenses and inadequate knowledge of playing the quarterback position.

Throughout the summer, Shedeur has remained where he started the Browns QB battle—at the bottom of the depth chart, and one local analyst suggests that's no one's fault but his own.

On his 92.3 The Fan radio show in Cleveland, host Ken Carman suggested the Browns are giving the 23-year-old a fair shot.

"The team is doing everything they can for a guy with the name Sanders, a star of his caliber, to provide the fairest shot possible for him," Carman said. "They are doing nothing to try to break him, to try to sabotage him, or to not be fair to him. After the cloud, this franchise has been the last few seasons—they don't want that guy to be a franchise quarterback?"

Shedeur sells jerseys and tickets, and his name alone generates attention.

Let's not pretend that doesn't matter to Jimmy Haslam.

The organization that has turned over more signal-callers than memorable moments in its existence isn't going to balk at a chance to turn that fortune around, but Shedeur also has to earn his spot on the field.