{"id":289020,"date":"2025-11-17T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289020\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:26:11","slug":"cleveland-browns-shedeur-sanders-struggles-in-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289020\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns\u2019 Shedeur Sanders struggles in NFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND — Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders<\/a> made his NFL debut Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, coming on in the opening possession of the second half as fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel<\/a> was being evaluated for a concussion.<\/p>\n

Gabriel, who had started the previous five games, played the entire first half, completing 7 of 10 passes for 68 yards. He also ran twice for 2 yards as Cleveland took a 16-10 lead into the half.<\/p>\n

Gabriel was officially ruled out due to the concussion later in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear which play led to Gabriel\u2019s evaluation for a concussion. But after defensive end Myles Garrett<\/a>\u2019s fourth sack of the game forced a Ravens punt on the opening drive of the second half, Sanders led the offense onto the field as the crowd at Huntington Bank Field broke out into cheers.<\/p>\n

During the first half, fans broke out \u201cWe Want Shedeur\u201d chants and booed after multiple errant Gabriel passes.<\/p>\n

Sanders completed his first two passes — one to wide receiver Cedric Tillman<\/a> and one to tight end David Njoku<\/a> — but was sacked on third down, forcing Cleveland to punt. He later threw an interception.<\/p>\n

Sanders, who had been viewed by some as a likely first-round pick, notably fell in April\u2019s NFL draft, with Cleveland ultimately taking him in the fifth round with the 144th overall selection. He began his NFL career as the No. 4 quarterback on the Browns\u2019 depth chart. A son of Pro Football Hall of Famer and Colorado football coach Deion Sanders, the rookie made his way to the backup role after the Browns traded veterans Kenny Pickett<\/a> and Joe Flacco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND — Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders made his NFL debut Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, coming on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,130984,514,130985,82],"class_list":["post-289020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-browns-sports-football-team-team-statscom-329","tag-nfl","tag-shedeur-sanders-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1272321","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}