Browns QB Shedeur Sanders Gets Bad News Ahead of Ravens Game

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Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders has faced an uphill battle this season after falling to the fifth round.

The path for Shedeur Sanders to see the field this season could get more complicated once Deshaun Watson enters the picture.

Watson is currently recovering from a twice-ruptured Achilles but he’s expected to return to practice in the next few weeks. Sanders is currently the backup to starter Dillon Gabriel. The assumption is that he’ll get the next shot if Gabriel continues to struggle. However, NFL insider Albert Breer is not so sure if that’ll be the case if Watson is available.

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” Breer said on 92.3 The Fan in response to a question about Watson seeing the field before Sanders. “My guess is they’d like to see both of them. But I think we have to remember that Shedeur is a fifth-round pick. The investment the organization has in those two guys is on different planets. One guy is under contract for the next three years, after this year, at a very low number. The other guy you have under contract for one more year, and you’re guaranteeing him $46 million. It’s not even close to the same thing, regardless of how famous the fifth-round pick may be.”

Deshaun Watson Decision May Be Obvious for Browns

The Browns are reeling at 2-7 following a loss to the lowly New York Jets, and the playoffs are not something realistically in reach for Cleveland. But players like Myles Garrett still want to win and Breer believes Watson is the player who will clearly give the Browns the best shot to do that.

“The players know who the best players are and who will give them the best shot to win,” Breer said. “With Deshaun’s experience and everything else, if he’s truly healthy and ready to go, I have a hard time seeing a scenario where he would get out there to practice and it wouldn’t be relatively obvious that he gives them a better shot to win.

“I don’t think it’s the wrong thing for the organization either, based on the amount of time, money and effort you’ve put into making Deshaun Watson your quarterback. … You have one year left with him and you’re on the hook for the $46 million. Wouldn’t you want to know or have an idea of what that looks like before you kick him out the door?”

Browns Planning for Future Without Deshaun Watson

The problem for the Browns that Breer may not be considering is that Watson is not in their future plans. They’re on the hook for Watson’s fully guaranteed contract but have admitted that the 2022 blockbuster trade for him was a “swing and miss.”

Cleveland is actively planning for its future, which could potentially include Gabriel and Sanders. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said that playing the two rookies this season was a priority, especially with Cleveland holding two first-round picks in next year’s draft.

For now, the Browns are sticking with Gabriel, despite his 1-4 record as the starter and lackluster performances. Browns coach Kevin Stefanski has declined to give any details on whether Sanders will play this season.

Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Makes First Statement on Marshawn Kneeland’s Death

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Jerry Jones was "devastated" by the news of Marshan Kneeland's death.

The Dallas Cowboys are mourning the loss of Marshawn Kneeland, and Jerry Jones is planning a special way to honor the late Cowboys defensive end.

The Cowboys owner and general manager opened up about Kneeland’s death for the first time on his weekly radio appearance on KRLD on Tuesday.

Kneeland, of course, died of what was reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a police chase in Dallas on Thursday. The 24-year-old had spent two seasons in Dallas, after it chose him in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft.

The Cowboys were on a bye this weekend but returned to practice Tuesday ahead of their upcoming game against the Raiders on Monday night at Allegiant Stadium.

Jerry Jones Was ‘Devastated’ By The Death Of Marshawn Kneeland

Jones had a one-word answer when asked about his reaction to the Kneeland news.

“Devastated,” Jones said. “Just hard to believe the content that was on the other phone in the middle of the night when we all got the news.”

Jones said the Cowboys will honor Kneeland by wearing t-shirts for warmups for their next two games, on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders and at home against the Philadelphia Eagles. He also said they will don a helmet decal acknowledging him as well, while noting the Cowboys players and staff will have to grapple with their grief the rest of the year.

“We all are having to share the sorrow, all are having to share the different ways or different things that come through your mind,” Jones said. “It’s not light that as a teammate, Marshawn touched everybody in many different ways.

“The very definition of team is we love each other, we rely on each other. That’s the ethos of what a team is about. Everybody expects that this is a rough game, it takes some real mental toughness to play the game, but in fact there’s a lot of love for each other there that is shared in unique ways, and you get to know each other pretty good.”

Brian Schottenheimer Is Helping The Cowboys’ Grieving Process

Losing a teammate midseason is going to have an impact on the Cowboys. Luckily, Jones said Dallas has an asset at dealing with this in coach Brian Schottenheimer.

“Schotty does have a realism about him because he simply was born into it in terms of being around anything unique about a football team,” Jones said. “I think we all have unfettered feelings about the people we love, people we work with.”

Kneeland became the latest Cowboys player to lose his life midseason — one of a handful since Jones took over the team in 1989. But Jones also acknowledged he is soul searching amid this tragedy.

“This is just a time when you acknowledge that there’s no answers,” Jones said. “It makes you want to live life to the fullest, it makes you want to look for the very best in what we have for each other, and in some way make some sense out of these times.”

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