Shedeur Sanders wants to ‘prove myself right’ as friendly QB battle with Dillon Gabriel begins

Shoedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel are for what figures to be a long battle to be the seafood of the Cleveland Browns field, a competition that also includes Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett.

Sanders and Gabriel have been present for the Browns’ rookie mini -family. While they continue to divide representatives, they seem to like what they have seen each other so far.

“It is a really great guy, in general. He is always in a good mood, but in general, I can say that he is a pretty good person,” Sanders said about Gabriel.

Gabriel, Selection No. 94 in the NFL 2025 draft, said it is not trying to be trapped in any distraction, and is welcoming the opportunity to compete with Sanders (Selection No. 144) through the low season program and the training camp.

“I love it because it is. I think only for both of us, you can learn from each other,” Gabriel said. “But also, we are not just the two in the room. At least for now it is. But upon entering the year, Kenny [Pickett]José [Flacco] and only descesshaun [Watson]Only a lot of boys who played a lot of ball that we can all learn from each other. “

Even so, Sanders is focused on leaving his mark.

“My work here is not to show that people are wrong,” Sanders said, according to the Browns team website. “It is to prove that it is correct.”

While Sanders’s fall in the Draft to the fifth round could be attributed to some of his father’s comments, the member of the Teacher Football Hall, Deion Sanders, knows that everything from now on depends on him.

“I am doing every click; I am getting up after the successes. I am the one who I launched touchdowns. I am the one who began to live the day. So all the United States were the opportunity and we had to navigate.” “And especially when we arrive at this building, we have excellent coaches in the building capable of keeping me focused, staying in a straight and narrow line.”

When it comes to negative comments, Sanders added that most of them comes from older fans instead of theirs or minors, and that most of them are due to his famous father.

“Ninety -nine percent of hatred is towards Pops, and then I am only his son, so he really comes from that. And I have also told him that,” he said. “It is the previous generation that makes it instead of young people because I come in person, there is no negativity that I see. But everything is treated online.”

Sanders and Gabriel received many photos during the two days of practices. Besids trying to learn the play book, there is a refining technique and also trying to learn to take snapshots under the center regularly.

Because the veterans have not had the opportunity to exercise 11 against 11, but they last their low season program, chief coach Kevin Stefanski said that some of the plays installed for the newbies should obtain an appearance and an evaluation in the field for the first time.

I only thought that Deshaun Watson is lost the season while recovering from Achilles twice, Stefanski said Watson is out of his walking boot, continues to be rehabilitated and has a bone in the meeting room with Pickett and Flacco.

“There is no easy way to see an installation in a person and say:” Here is our offensive, here is our play book, find out. “Simply take time,” Stefanski said. “This is not something you can collect and break your fingers. I would like it to be so; there are only many meetings. You will make mistakes, both physical and mental, and what we are trying to do is train them and learn from them.”

Sanders said that the important thing in what will focus on the coming months is to try to improve daily.

“I just find something to perfect and perfect it the best I can,” he said. “I am grateful for an opportunity. Things could have a much worse leg, but I am smiling in front of everyone in this installation at this time.”

Sanders, with his new T -shirt No. 12, tok the number because he said he was the best available; Hello no. 2 in Colorado, which was later removed by school. Nor is it that it was the number Tom Brady Wue and the route to seven Super Bowl championships with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

[MORE: Shedeur Sanders to wear No. 12 with Browns, at least for now]

In addition, he knows that he has a long way to be a forest, he just pretends to make a sacrifice to the recipient of Antter Carter to use no. 2.

“I’m not trying to buy anything. My signature bonus is not so high at this time,” Sanders said.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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