{"id":46170,"date":"2025-07-29T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46170\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:19:08","slug":"jimmy-haslam-shedeur-sanders-was-picked-by-g-m-andrew-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46170\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Haslam: Shedeur Sanders was picked by G.M. Andrew Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Browns have four quarterbacks on the active roster, and a fifth on the Physically Unable to Perform list.<\/p>\n

The curveball came in round five of the draft, when Cleveland added rookie Shedeur Sanders with the 144th overall pick. Just two rounds after the Browns selected quarterback Dillon Gabriel in round three.<\/p>\n

Some believe that owner Jimmy Haslam forced the issue, given the perception (or reality) that he has engineered other big-swing quarterback moves, from Johnny Manziel in 2014 to Deshaun Watson in 2022, while maintaining plausible (or implausible<\/a>) deniability.<\/p>\n

Meeting with reporters on Tuesday, Haslam was asked about the theory that Haslam made the call on Shedeur.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have good process,\u201d Haslam said, via Daniel Oyefusi of ESPN.com. \u201cWe had a conversation early that morning and then we had a conversation later that day. I think we had the right people involved in the conversation. And the end of the day, that\u2019s [G.M.] Andrew Berry\u2019s call. Andrew made the call to pick Shedeur<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haslam\u2019s answer makes it clear that the organization considered the possibility that Sanders would be available at a round that would make taking him a bargain they couldn\u2019t refuse. During those conversations, Haslam surely said something. Whatever he said, and didn\u2019t say, would become evidence for Berry\u2019s eventual assessment as to whether the owner was, or wasn\u2019t, on board with it.<\/p>\n

If Haslam had said, for instance, \u201cWe already drafted a quarterback; we don\u2019t need another one,\u201d would Berry have picked Sanders? Probably not. If Haslam had said, \u201cYou can\u2019t have enough good quarterbacks,\u201d would that have influenced Berry?<\/p>\n

Owners who truly delegate the decision to others know how to not put a thumb on the scale without leaving an obvious print. We\u2019ll never know whether Haslam truly kept quiet and allowed Berry to make the decision.<\/p>\n

Still, the fact that there were not one but two conversations suggests they had a plan. And while the call was Berry\u2019s, the conversations likely drove the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns have four quarterbacks on the active roster, and a fifth on the Physically Unable to Perform…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-46170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170","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=46170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}