{"id":678046,"date":"2026-05-18T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:54:10","slug":"deion-sanders-issues-warning-to-rest-of-nfl-before-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678046\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders Issues Warning To Rest Of NFL Before 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Browns<\/a> haven’t been championship contenders in, well, forever. But Deion Sanders<\/a> thinks that could change in 2026.<\/p>\n

The University of Colorado Buffaloes head coach is speaking out on his son’s team, the Cleveland Browns, prior to the start of the 2026 NFL<\/a> regular season. And he’s warning everyone: beware of the Browns.<\/p>\n

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Coach Prime thinks that the Browns could be one of the NFL’s most improved teams during the 2026 regular season. He’s high on his son, of course, as Shedeur Sanders<\/a> will look to keep the starting quarterback job. Meanwhile, Deion Sanders is optimistic about the team’s other young players and, especially the defense.<\/p>\n

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Coach Prime is optimistic.\u00a9 Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The head coach of the University of Colorado football program is speaking out ahead of the 2026 NFL regular season, making it clear that he believes the Browns could be among the league’s best next year.<\/p>\n

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Coach Prime warns rest of the league<\/p>\n

Appearing on\u00a0The Barbershop\u00a0with Garrett Bush, Deion Sanders made it clear that he is very high on the Browns.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at that rookie class last season,\u201d Deion said. \u201cThe rookie class this season, who I know they haven\u2019t played, they haven\u2019t put it on grass. But they\u2019re building something that is tremendous, and they\u2019re not too far away. Of course, they need stability at the quarterback position. Of course, they need stability on the offensive line.\u00a0Everything else, to me, they got it. They got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Coach Prime is fed up with the Myles Garrett<\/a> trade talks, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got a killer on defense, I\u2019m tired of y\u2019all talking about trading him and getting rid of him,\u201d Deion said. \u201cThat don\u2019t make no sense to me. That\u2019s a once in a lifetime man. That\u2019s a once in a lifetime man that you don\u2019t see no more. I don\u2019t get rid of that. Unless I could get your mama, daddy, your uncle, cousins, and everybody in a trade for that. Because that\u2019s a grown man. That\u2019s a winner. That\u2019s a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen, of course, if Shedeur Sanders will start. There’s talk that Deshaun Watson<\/a> could re-take his starting QB job in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Deion Sanders might feel differently about the Browns in 2026 if that’s the case.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 18, 2026, where it first appeared in the NFL<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns haven’t been championship contenders in, well, forever. But Deion Sanders thinks that could change in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1238,242242,41610,21977,16820,593,1244,85,8543],"class_list":["post-678046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-coach-prime","tag-deion-sanders","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-sports","tag-the-browns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}