In some ways, it’s just a Friday in mid-July.
In others, it’s the start of the most important month of Shedeur Sanders’ football career.
Cleveland Browns training camp gets underway on Friday, July 18, with the reporting of the quarterbacks and rookies to camp.
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Sanders is lined up to be in a dogfight with Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel. That’s not just for the starting QB job, either. One of those quarterbacks might not even make the roster.
The bumpy journey of Sanders could go a whole lot of different directions in the next month-plus.
He was a star at Jackson State for his father Deion, followed him to Colorado and was a star there too.
Sanders completed 74% of his passes in his final season in Boulder and was a consensus first-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. Then he fell to the fifth round, pick No. 144, before Cleveland mercifully ended the draft slide.
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His draft position doesn’t matter now, at least not much. All that matters is how Sanders performs on the field and behaves off of it.
There were many who thought, before the draft, that Sanders could develop into a franchise QB.
Beginning Friday, he has a chance to prove those believers right.
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