Shedeur Sanders isn’t proving any of his NFL skeptics wrong.
The red flags that caused his stunning draft slide in April only look more and more justified.
He’s only played one half of football in the NFL, but his debut on Sunday was disastrous. He completed just 4 of 16 passes for 47 yards, no touchdowns and an interception in the Browns’ 23-16 loss to the Ravens in Cleveland.
Yes, the sample size is small, but it is the way Sanders struggled that matched all of the concerns about him coming out of college — that he held the ball too long, was not elusive in the pocket, did not have good pass-rush awareness and took too many sacks for significant lost yardage. On Sunday, the two sacks he took were for 11-yard and 14-yard losses. Plenty of his incompletions were the product of unnecessarily coming under heavy pressure due to a lack of awareness as well.