{"id":156456,"date":"2025-09-14T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156456\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:49:08","slug":"ravens-planned-to-draft-shedeur-sanders-but-he-declined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156456\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Planned to Draft Shedeur Sanders, But He Declined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders will be on the opposite sideline from Jackson on Sunday when the Ravens host Cleveland at M&amp;T Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland ended Sanders&#8217; unexpected slide in the draft by selecting him in Round 5 (144th overall), three spots after the Ravens reportedly considered drafting him. Baltimore chose offensive lineman Carson Vinson instead.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time MVP, the 28-year-old Jackson will be the Ravens&#8217; starting quarterback for the foreseeable future. Baltimore signed veteran backup quarterback Cooper Rush in March, and Sanders would have been competing for a third quarterback spot. Cleveland gave Sanders a better shot at becoming a starter.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is the No. 3 quarterback on Cleveland&#8217;s depth chart behind starter Joe Flacco and rookie Dillon Gabriel. The Browns had five quarterbacks on their active roster at one point during training camp, but Sanders earned a spot on their 53-man roster. Cleveland traded Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders and released Tyler Huntley, who signed with the Ravens&#8217; practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Flacco will be <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/joe-flacco-return-baltimore-nothing-but-love-browns-lamar-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">making his first visit to Baltimore as the opposing quarterback<\/a> since leaving the Ravens following the 2018 season. It remains to be seen how Sanders&#8217; future in Cleveland will play out, but according to Schefter, Sanders was close to being a Raven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanders will be on the opposite sideline from Jackson on Sunday when the Ravens host Cleveland at M&amp;T&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[19686,257,2593,17263,349,99],"class_list":["post-156456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-clifton-brown","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}