Shedeur Sanders had a solid first preseason game with the Cleveland Browns to kickoff preseason action on Friday night.
Sanders exited the game with a final line of 138 yards and 2 touchdowns on 23 pass attempts. He led Cleveland on multiple scoring drives before giving way to Tyler Huntley.
Sanders’ NFL prospects have been much-discussed since his draft-day free fall way back in the spring. After beginning the process as a potential top pick in the draft, Sanders slid all the way to the 5th round — and wasn’t even the first quarterback selected by the Browns in the 2025 draft.
Still, Sanders was given the opportunity to start and play for the majority of Cleveland’s preseason opener on Friday night. And although his stat line is relatively clean, fans and media were perhaps a bit overeager to proclaim Sanders’ draft slide as a mistake based on one preseason contest.
Sanders averaged just 6 yards per attempt, which is not a particularly-efficient number by NFL standards. Last season, NFL quarterbacks combined for 382 games with at least 20 pass attempts and 6 yards per attempt. Six yards per attempt would have also been tied for dead-last across a full season among QBs who threw for at least 250 passes during the 2024-25 season.
Sanders supporters preferred to focus on the 2 touchdowns, however. His father, Deion Sanders, and LeBron James were among those who shared strong reactions to his preseason debut:
Oh yeah what now! #CoachPrime
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) August 9, 2025And I don’t wanna hear that “It’s only preseason” bs. Cause if he was out there not going in y’all would be on his ass about it! So give credit and grace lames. ??♂️
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 9, 2025Anyone saying it’s JuST pREseaSOn regarding Shedeur Sanders’ performance can shut all the way up. “It’s just preseason” is the broke cousin of “I was just kidding.” He maximized his opportunity and PUT ON A SHOW. If he played bad, y’all would have tried to crush him.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) August 9, 2025SHEDEUR SANDERS PUT ON A SHOW IN HIS PRESEASON DEBUT ⌚️ pic.twitter.com/yEhAL5YUxy
— ESPN (@espn) August 9, 2025SHEDEUR SANDERS IS MAKING THE NFL LOOK FOOLISH.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) August 9, 2025Is Shedeur Sanders What We Thought He Was? t.co/SXnZjvsRLK pic.twitter.com/QlBfu4iF6Z
— Chase Daniel (@ChaseDaniel) August 9, 2025If anybody doubts that Shedeur Sanders game will translate to the NFL, just show them this and shush em up.1st round stuff right here.???#AchoAnalysis | #DawgPound #UnemployedBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/4lZXThzwu3
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) August 9, 2025Just a PSA for all NFL fans: All the same dudes who said Shedeur Sanders was “set up to fail” bizarrely because he was forced to start a preseason game (?)will now say he should be QB1. Both takes are stupid. Just don’t fall for either!
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) August 9, 2025Folks not giving shedeur sanders any credit for a preseason game when we just saw Anthony Richardson get hurt 24 hours ago because he had no pocket awareness in said preseason game lmao pic.twitter.com/HZuOAN4YoD
— John (@iam_johnw) August 9, 2025Well at least Andrew Berry gets to take credit for the Shedeur Sanders pick all by himself… because it was made clear the owner wanted nothing to do with it! ????
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) August 9, 2025Shedeur Sanders slowly ending careers lol ? pic.twitter.com/x20pA68Ro8
— GTizzle2144 (@BigTymeSport) August 9, 2025Deion Sanders, media and fans share strong reactions to Shedeur Sanders’ Browns debut Saturday Down South.
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