The Cleveland Browns have one less quarterback on the roster this week, after they traded veteran quarterback Joe Flacco and a sixth round pick to the Cincinnati Bengals for a fourth round pick.
However, Flacco was the Browns' starting quarterback for the first four weeks of the season before rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel earned the start in Week 5.
Once, Gabriel was announced the starter, fellow rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders remained No. 3 on the depth chart, behind Flacco. With Flacco gone now, what does that mean for Sanders?
Deion Sanders Reacts to Browns' Joe Flacco Trade
With Flacco off the roster, and Gabriel remaining the Browns' starter. It's valid to wonder if Shedeur Sanders is now the Browns' top backup option.
That may have been the avenue one reporter was going toward when asking Deion Sanders about the Browns' Flacco trade.
However, at Coach Prime's weekly press conference on Tuesday, he could not care less about the Browns.
"I don't care. I don't give a darn about the Browns at all. I care about the Colorado Buffaloes," Deion Sanders said (h/t SI.com). "I do love me some Shedeur Sanders, though, believe that. I care about him. The rest of that mess, I don't.
“I don’t give a darn about the Browns AT ALL. I care about the Colorado Buffaloes…
— All the Smoke (@allthesmokeprod) October 7, 2025
I do love me some Shedeur Sanders though, believe that.“
Deion Sanders reacts to the Browns/Bengals trade involving Joe Flacco

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"I'm a coach that's trying win just like they're trying to win games, but I could care less of who they traded."
Whether it's frustration building from the situation that's played out in Cleveland so far, or frustration over the way Colorado's season has gone so far, or simply that Sanders wanted to focus the questions surrounding his Buffaloes, Coach Prime didn't want any part of that Browns' centered question.
It's been a tumultuous first few months in Cleveland for Shedeur, but with Flacco off to the Bengals, he should be the main backup behind Gabriel, and could be competing for the starting job throughout the year.