{"id":94245,"date":"2025-08-25T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94245\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:38:08","slug":"shedeur-sanders-sends-message-to-fans-after-first-browns-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94245\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders sends message to fans after first Browns preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders took to social media Sunday to express gratitude following his first NFL preseason experience. <\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post, Sanders wrote, \u201cThanks everyone for the [love] and support. There\u2019s a lot to learn from this preseason, but I\u2019m really thankful for the opportunity to be out there. Day by day, rep by rep, I\u2019ll keep learning and getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36920695\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2230893657.jpg\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders walks off the field after the team's 17-16 win over the Los Angeles Rams in an NFL Preseason 2025 game at Huntington Bank Field on August 23, 2025 in Cleveland, Ohio. \" class=\"wp-image-36920695\"  \/>Shedeur Sanders walks off the field after the team\u2019s 17-16 win over the Los Angeles Rams in an NFL Preseason 2025 game at Huntington Bank Field on August 23, 2025 in Cleveland, Ohio.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sanders shared two photos with his message, one of him interacting with Browns fans \u2014 with one holding out his jersey \u2014 and a second photo is from a huddle during a preseason game.<\/p>\n<p>The former college standout has drawn attention not only for his pedigree, being the son of football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, but also for the polarizing evaluation that appears to have followed him from college.<\/p>\n<p>This preseason, Sanders completed 17-of-29 passes.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 passing yards stand at 152 with two touchdowns and zero turnovers, though he has taken seven sacks.<\/p>\n<p>He has also rushed for 19 yards on four carries.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36920694\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231669635.jpg\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders was drafted in the fifth round of the NFL Draft in April. \" class=\"wp-image-36920694\"  \/>Shedeur Sanders was drafted in the fifth round of the NFL Draft in April.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/sports\/shedeur-sanders-browns-fate-revealed-as-roster-cuts-loom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be part of a four-man quarterback room<\/a> in Cleveland with starter Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, once projected as a first-round draft choice, fell to the fifth round in April before being picked at No. 144 overall by the Browns following a high-profile college tenure at Colorado and Jackson State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders took to social media Sunday to express gratitude following his first NFL preseason experience.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1238,593,1244,85],"class_list":["post-94245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-nfl","tag-shedeur-sanders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94245","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=94245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}