Shedeur: Whatever Browns role is 'I'm thankful'

BEREA, Ohio -- As Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski considers whom to tab arsenic Cleveland's backup quarterback, Shedeur Sanders said Thursday that helium sees a "light astatine the extremity of the tunnel" aft starting retired arsenic the team's No. 4 QB successful grooming camp.

"I'm successful a large intelligence abstraction overall," Sanders said. "So I would accidental you thin to get a small spot much excited erstwhile you spot a airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel, for sure. ... Whatever my relation is here, I'm thankful. I'm blessed conscionable to bash that."

Stefanski connected Wednesday was noncommittal connected whether Sanders -- oregon signifier squad backmost Bailey Zappe -- would beryllium the backup to rookie Dillon Gabriel for Sunday's roadworthy crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers successful the aftermath of trading Joe Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals.

The commercialized near Gabriel, a third-round pick, and Sanders, a fifth-round pick, arsenic the lone quarterbacks connected the progressive roster. However, Stefanski said helium would "let the week play retired [and] marque a determination later" erstwhile asked astir the QB2 role.

Sanders, the lad of Pro Football Hall of Famer and Colorado shot manager Deion Sanders, has spent the archetypal 5 games of the play arsenic the team's inactive exigency quarterback. He got constricted reps amid a crowded backmost country during the summer. But helium made the Browns' 53-man roster arsenic Cleveland traded Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders and released Tyler Huntley. Through the archetypal period of the season, Sanders divided scout-team reps with Gabriel and Zappe.

"We're going to marque definite we bash everything we tin to marque definite Dillon's acceptable for the game," Sanders said. "Whatever that means. Each and each day, adjacent erstwhile Joe was the starter, preparing the close mode and beryllium acceptable to cognize that you could get retired determination astatine immoderate constituent successful time. I'm overly assured wrong myself. I cognize erstwhile I archetypal got here, I'm acceptable to play, but it's up to the coaches and immoderate determination they marque then, I'm good with."

Browns violative coordinator Tommy Rees connected Thursday was complimentary of Sanders' preparation.

"We're looking for changeless betterment passim the season, and he's done that," Rees said. "I deliberation you spot the maturation and the familiarity of the discourtesy and what we're asking of those guys. I deliberation the level of mentation it takes week to week erstwhile you're putting a caller crippled program together, that's a learning curve for each rookies. So, I deliberation he's gotten much utilized to that, gotten up to speed, doing a bully occupation successful his mentation and knowing what the crippled program holds. And erstwhile he's had his opportunities to spell run it, he's done a bully job."

Sanders faced disapproval past week when helium pantomimed answers successful effect to questions astir the Browns' backmost alteration to Gabriel. Sanders was responding to captious comments from ESPN expert Rex Ryan connected "Get Up" earlier that week. While Sanders declined to respond to Ryan's comments -- "we not connected nary negativity from present on, man, we not doing that. I'm conscionable present to beryllium affirmative and I don't talk connected thing negative" -- helium said helium wanted to beryllium mindful of however his comments and p...