QB Shedeur Sanders (12.31.25)
Shedeur, is there anything specific that you kind of want to show in your final game this weekend?
“Just staying consistent, taking what they give me. Whenever we get off rhythm, get back on rhythm, you know, get back on track. And I think that’s the next part of my game I’m trying to evolve, is whenever either we’re stagnant or some adversity comes, being able to get back on track.”
Do you feel like you’ve shown enough through your starts to prove to the league that you’re a franchise quarterback?
“I can’t think about what other people’s opinion or what they view me as. I know the teams that we go against, I know they definitely respect me in a passing game, for sure, but I can’t be accountable for somebody else’s decisions.”
Have the Browns given you good feedback along the way about just how much you’re developing, the strides that you’ve been making? Are you getting just positive vibes from them?
“Yeah, we keep everything in house. We keep everything in house here.”
After the game, when you talked about that throw to Jerry (Jeudy) – You said you like to give your guys a chance, so when you go back and watch that film, is there a balance there? Maybe some situations it’s okay to try that and some aren’t. Have you had that discussion with the coaches?
“Yeah, for sure. I think it’s just decisions within myself. I think things go different ways, you know, like, if positive things happen, it’s like, okay, but if negative things happen, that’s okay. But I got to be able to take the proper, necessary risk. And even whenever you go through your progressions and the checkdown isn’t there, then what? So that’s kind of where I feel like the strides have been made from getting to the reads, getting to the checkdown. Now, the biggest jump I’ll say for me, is I plan on showing and plan on improving is when there is no play and I can’t get out of it, I can’t run – what I’m going to do with the ball.”
No matter who’s played quarterback this year for the Browns, every game there’s been maybe one, maybe two really good series and that’s about it. What’s preventing the offense from being more consistent?
“I’m not sure that’s on everybody, what they want to speculate and whatever they think. I don’t think that’s something I could think about.”
How much have you and your hungry “dawgs” kind of grown up together over these last six starts and really kind of gone out there and shined in so many situations for you?
“I say whenever everybody gets the opportunity, they’re excited for it, so they’re ready to get out there and do their thing.”
What makes this team want to fight so hard for Coach Stefanski in these final games? Speculation about his job, it just seems like you guys are all on board.
“Yeah, I don’t think we listen to the external stuff. He’s our coach. We view him as the same as we view him the first week. You know, we got the utmost respect for him. And yeah, I think that’s more media stuff, that’s more outside noise than, I mean, half of us don’t know if we gonna be here next year, you know what I’m saying? So, it’s like we don’t really look at that. You know, we play for the franchise, we play for our coaches, we play for the names on the front and back of our jersey. So, it’s more than just like stuff that’s just online.”
Do you find it easy to block out that sort of stuff, or is that something you’ve had to learn how to do?
“No, I think the pressure and attention, everything been on me since I was a kid, since I was born. So, it’s just another year of it, but it doesn’t change anything within my own process.”
What has Kevin meant to you in your rookie season as far as development? Early in the year, there was all that nonsense about what your relationship may or may not be and things like that, but what’s he meant to you and helping really grow in your rookie year?
Yeah, I’ll say I’m truly thankful. I’m thankful that I was able to come here. I’m thankful that I do have a relationship with all the coaches. I’m thankful that just evolving from day one, evolving from being a ‘hungry dawg’ to now, it’s exciting. And sometimes I think about those days, so I don’t take anything for granted. I think overall, the communication with the coaches and everything been really good, and I’m just thankful to just be here in general.”
You get any gifts to the P.O. Box?
“I ain’t checked. It was a holiday the other week, so I ain’t checked the P.O. Box yet, but I’m definitely gonna check it. Well, I’m personally not gonna check it, so let’s just get that straight. I’m not gonna check it, but somebody gonna check it in the next couple days, hopefully. I don’t know what time, though. Maybe when it’s closed.”
We saw your pops put his hat in his lap as you threw that second pick. Is he ripping you at all for that, did you talk to him?
“I don’t think no father likes when their kids throw picks. I don’t think anybody likes when their kids do anything negative. So, I think that’s just a dad. How would you feel if your son did something? It’s the same of how everybody else would feel.”
Have you had any conversation with him, that’s all?
“Yeah, that’s my dad. I talk to him. I talk to him a lot—after the games, everything. So, I don’t know. I don’t think he’s just not gonna talk to me after that.”
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