{"id":67876,"date":"2025-08-14T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67876\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:54:09","slug":"shedeur-sanders-delivers-significant-ratings-in-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67876\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders delivers significant ratings in preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shedeur Sanders sells.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise. His draft-weekend free-fall generated massive ratings. His preseason debut did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Via Yahoo Sports, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yahoosports\/status\/1955823041646088312?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">more than 2.2 million<\/a> on average watched NFL Network\u2019s broadcast of the Browns-Panthers game on Friday night. It\u2019s supposedly the biggest audience in a decade for a preseason game on the league-owned outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sanders is currently day-to-day with an oblique injury, how can Shedeur\u2019s drawing power not become a factor in whether he plays? It\u2019s ultimately an entertainment business. And the Browns haven\u2019t done much lately that counts as entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Why not give the people what they want to watch?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not many will see it in 2025; the Browns currently have no prime-time games. The only standalone contest, subject to future flexing, comes in Week 5, when the Browns play the Vikings in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders sells. It\u2019s no surprise. His draft-weekend free-fall generated massive ratings. His preseason debut did the same.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-67876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67876","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=67876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}