The trade ended the Browns draft with only seven new players, two quarterbacks, after drafting Sanders and Oregon passer Dillon Gabriel in Friday's third round.
Sanders had been regarded as a first-round selection and the second-best quarterback behind Cam Ward in the class, with many in the Cleveland media, most notably Browns beat writer Mary Kay Cabot, to be selected second overall.
Sanders threw for over four thousand yards last year with thirty-seven touchdowns against ten interceptions, completing seventy-four percent of his passes.
Sanders has a good arm, not a great one, and good athletic ability, but isn't the natural athlete that his father, Hall of Famer and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, was.
Colorado's offensive line was awful in the two seasons that Sanders played there, but he didn't help his protection as he often held onto the ball for far too long.
Sanders is more accurate throwing long than short.
I didn't want the Browns picking Shedeur Sanders in round one, but I didn't want them choosing any quarterback in round one.
What I question is the third-round choice of Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel and then trading up for Sanders, even at the small cost of a sixth-round draft choice.
No one would have criticized Andrew Berry and the Browns had they used the late third-round pick they used on Dillon Gabriel on Shedeur Sanders, and most would have been complementing the Browns for landing Sanders in the third.
Instead, the Browns suddenly have two rookie quarterbacks, on fairly even draft status, and lost the chance to gain two other players who could have possibly helped the team.
Had the Browns drafted Sanders in round three rather than Gabriel, they could have had Sanders (the better prospect) and other players in rounds five and six.
Jason Lloyd of The Athletic writes that this feels like Gabriel was preferred by the front office, and Sanders was Jimmy Haslam's man.
That makes sense, but Jimmy Haslam loves Andrew Berry, and I can't imagine he wants Berry to fail, so if this becomes a problem, it will be a down-the-road problem, not a 2025 ailment.
I like the player, although I'm not convinced he's a sure thing, and I also liked the cost.
However, between the drafting of Dillon Gabriel and the trade-up for Shedeur Sanders, the Cleveland Browns' look is the same as always—silly, Nonsensical, Smarter than everyone else (although those are the teams that win), and out of Control.
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