BEREA, Ohio — Rookie Shedeur Sanders will begin at quarterback in Sunday’s residence recreation towards the San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski introduced Monday.
Sanders, a fifth-round decide, will stay the starter regardless that fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel, a third-round decide, has cleared the concussion protocol, Stefanski stated.
With Gabriel sidelined, Sanders accomplished 11 of 20 passes for 209 yards with one landing and an interception within the Browns’ 24-10 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday in his first NFL begin.
“The primary job of a quarterback is to win,” Stefanski stated. “So, excited to get that first win underneath his belt. And the subsequent factor is enchancment, and that is what younger gamers do. Actually, younger quarterbacks do. You get one recreation higher, and that is simply from working at it. So, that’ll be our focus.”
When requested if Sanders beginning could be a week-to-week resolution, Stefanski stated: “I am simply going to concentrate on this week. Not going to get a lot previous this week.”
Sanders, who turned the forty second quarterback to begin for the Browns since 1999, additionally turned the primary Cleveland quarterback to win his first NFL begin since Eric Zeier in 1995. The victory ended a 17-game dropping streak for the Browns in video games with a quarterback making his first profession begin. That was the longest streak by any franchise since 1950, when QB begins have been first recorded.
“First begin for any quarterback, you are all the time going to guarantee that the operation is the way you need it, and I believed by and enormous was good,” Stefanski stated. “There’s issues that we will clear up and clearly that goes on all of us. That is coaches, that is the gamers, the quarterback, the place we will clear up a few of our operation. However I believed communication was actually good all through the day with him.
“The large performs downfield,” Stefanski added. “Clearly the [52-yard completion] to [rookie wide receiver Isaiah Bond] was very, very excessive diploma of problem with that play. Are there issues that he can do higher? Completely. We have already talked about that with him. He has the mentality that he’ll make the changes to the velocity of the sport, make the changes to what individuals are giving us to make these enhancements.”
Gabriel began the earlier 5 video games earlier than struggling a concussion towards the Baltimore Ravens in Week 11, which sidelined him for the second half of the 23-16 loss and Sunday’s recreation towards the Raiders. In eight video games (six begins), Gabriel has accomplished 59.2% of his passes (109-of-184) for 937 yards, seven touchdowns and two interceptions. The Browns went 1-4 in video games Gabriel began earlier than his damage in Week 11.