NFL training camp live updates: After encouraging debut, Shedeur Sanders still 4th on Browns' depth chart

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One full week of NFL preseason motion is within the books, and there is a lot to speak about.

The most important story was Friday night time, when Browns fifth-round rookie Shedeur Sanders looked solid in his professional debut, going 14 of 23 for 138 yards and two touchdowns. Sanders’ efficiency, based on Yahoo Sports Senior NFL Reporter Charles Robinson, who was on the scene in Carolina, may edge the Browns into some actual QB drama.

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On Monday, the Browns revealed their second preseason depth chart, and Sanders was nonetheless fourth, behind presumptive common season starter Joe Flacco, veteran Kenny Pickett and rookie third-rounder Dillon Gabriel. Preseason depth charts aren’t the be all, finish all, and needs to be taken with grains of salt. But it surely was nonetheless notable.

Neither Flacco nor Pickett will play vs. the Eagles on Saturday within the Browns’ second preseason sport, per Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. Earlier Monday, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski was requested if Sanders would begin in Philadelphia.

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“I am not there on the sport itself,” head coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday. “By Wednesday, Thursday, I am going to have a greater really feel for the sport and the way we’ll deal with that and I am going to replace you guys, however not there but.

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Monday’s observe, for what it is price, did not shed a lot new mild on the pecking order. Joe Flacco, who sat out the preseason opener and is the presumptive QB1, did goal-to-go 11-on-11s with the starters, per ESPN, and third-round rookie Dillon Gabriel was subsequent with the second crew. Then veteran Kenny Pickett was up first in pink zone 7-on-7s, adopted by Gabriel, per The Athletic.

Sanders completed 10 of 14 with two touchdowns on Monday per ESPN Cleveland, in a observe the place every quarterback shined numbers-wise below completely different drills. Flacco went 7 of 11 with a landing, Pickett was an ideal 5-for-5 with three touchdowns, and Gabriel went 7 of 10 for 3 touchdowns.

So this case, shock shock, might be one to observe all week.

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