Browns Rookie QB Shedeur Sanders Misses Staff Drills With ‘Arm Soreness’

Shedeur Sanders is having his moments in Cleveland Browns coaching camp, however a blip has emerged on the radar.

The Browns introduced that the rookie quarterback was held out of staff drills on Saturday because of “arm soreness.” In the meantime, quarterback and commerce acquisition Kenny Pickett returned to motion from a hamstring damage for particular person drills on Saturday.

Sanders is in a four-way competitors to be the Browns’ 2025 beginning quarterback with the aforementioned Pickett, veteran Joe Flacco and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel.

“It is subsequent man up,” Pickett stated after Saturday’s observe. “While you’re not in a contest, I feel you are dropping floor. I feel that is the character of the enterprise, the character of the sport. It is nice for these two guys [Flacco and Gabriel] to get further reps, however me and Shedeur have gotten to get again on the market.”

Sanders’ choice shocked many, because the Browns traded as much as choose the 2024 Massive 12 Offensive Participant of the 12 months with the No. 144 decide within the 2025 NFL Draft after already taking Gabriel, a 2024 Heisman finalist, with the No. 94 decide. Earlier this week, Browns proprietor Jimmy Haslam stated that the choice to pick Sanders was that of Govt Vice President of Soccer Operations Andrew Berry after hypothesis that Haslam requested his entrance workplace to draft Sanders.

Cleveland opens its 2025 preseason on the street towards the Carolina Panthers on Aug. 8.

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