Shedeur Sanders clarifies where Browns QBs stand after people try to pit them against each other

There are a lot of chefs — err, quarterbacks — in the kitchen in Cleveland, with up to five potential starting signal callers in the mix for the 2025 season.Controversial fifth-round pick Shedeur Sanders is one of those options, and he pushed back against any developing narrative of any potential strife among the quintet.“Everybody is cool in the room,” Sanders told Kay Adams recently.“Outside of the room, people try to pit us against each other, but inside the room, we know we one.”There’s a saying that if you have two quarterbacks, you really don’t have one, and in the Browns’ case, they are going to have to choose from a group of two rookies and three veterans.Now, it’s likely the battle will only be a fatal four-way, to use WWE terms, since incumbent starter Deshaun Watson could miss all of the season due to multiple surgeries on his right Achilles tendon.Thanks to his guaranteed contract, he would presumably be the starter if healthy.That leaves the battle between Sanders, 2025 third-round pick Dillon Gabriel, veteran and Super Bowl champion Joe Flacco and offseason acquisition and former first-round pick Kenny Pickett.An early report from Cleveland.com pegged Pickett, who underwhelmed as the Steelers’ starter before serving as Jalen Hurts’ backup last year, as the projected starter.“It’s a tough call before we’ve even seen the first practice of organized team activities, but I know Kenny Pickett heads in as the frontrunner to win the starting job at the outset,” longtime beat writer Mary Kay Cabot wrote earlier this month.

“He’ll take the initial first-team reps in OTAs and probably the mandatory minicamp, and it seems like it’s his job to try to keep for now.”There obviously is a lot of time until the Browns open at home against the Bengals on Sept.7, and performance and/or injuries could dictate the situation.Sanders and Gabriel will have their chance to impress the coaches and perhaps show that they can be the team�...