The Cleveland Browns have decided on who their starting quarterback will be for the rest of the season, and the decision comes as no surprise.
According to Scott Petrak of The Chronicle-Telegram, head coach Kevin Stefanski announced that quarterback Shedeur Sanders will remain the starter for the rest of Cleveland's 2025 campaign, which has four games left.
"Browns coach Kevin Stefanski commits to Shedeur Sanders as starter for rest of season -- four more games. That would give him 7 starts," Petrak reported.
“He has constantly and consistently got better in each one of these games… I feel good about where his development is headed," Stefanski said, per NFL Network's Cameron Wolfe.
This was a no-brainer decision for the Browns.
After watching fellow rookie signal-caller Dillon Gabriel for six starts and Sanders for three (four games in total), there is no doubt the latter is the better option right now and deserves a longer look.
It hasn't been perfect, but Sanders has shown plenty of flashes since then and nothing seems too big for him, which is a good sign for a young quarterback.
Sanders has thrown for over 200 yards twice in three starts, something Gabriel only did once in his six starts. Sanders also has 722 passing yards over those three starts, which is just 215 yards less than Gabriel has in nine games.
Sanders' best game came in Week 14, when he completed 54.8% of his passes for 364 yards and three touchdowns to one interception.
More impressively, Sanders nearly led the Browns to a comeback that was thwarted in part by an awful play call at the end of the contest that saw the Browns pull him off the field in favor of the wild-cat formation on the two-point try that could've sent the game into overtime.
The play failed miserably, sealing the loss to the Tennessee Titans and ensuring Stefanski would rightly get ripped for it.
Now, Sanders has four more games to show he could be the guy for the Browns before the team considers using a high draft pick on another quarterback in 2026.
In order to fully gauge what Sanders can do, Stefanski can't make anymore bone-headed decisions like he did at the end of Sunday's game. Give Sanders all he can handle and stop getting cute near the goal-line.
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