On the day the Browns benched veteran quarterback Joe Flacco for rookie Dillon Gabriel, it\u2019s natural for the media to seek comments from Flacco, Gabriel, and the team\u2019s other quarterback: rookie Shedeur Sanders.<\/p>\n
And so Sanders met with reporters in the locker room. In response to every question, he smiled, moved his mouth, but didn\u2019t speak<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether miming answers satisfies the league\u2019s media policy. In past situations, the NFL\u2019s position has been that the player only has to be available to take questions; answers don\u2019t have to be given. For Marshawn Lynch, it was acceptable to repeatedly say, \u201cI\u2019m just here so I don\u2019t get fined.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s also unclear why Sanders opted for silence. He was possibly unwilling to toe the party line regarding the depth chart, which still has him at No. 3<\/a>. Or maybe he was responding to the reaction to his recent remarks regarding his readiness to play \u2014 and his belief that he\u2019s better than some quarterbacks who are playing<\/a>. <\/p>\n