Shedeur Sanders has, in many ways, been the talk of the NFL during the first weeks of training camp. Sanders is in a position where he’s trying to prove he deserves a higher spot on the depth chart. After an impressive preseason debut, there’s some buzz that the Browns staff may be thinking more seriously about him.
“But even though a starting spot any time early in the fall is likely out of reach, he has renewed relevance in the quarterback room and gave Cleveland strong incentive to keep giving him looks in both the rest of the summer and down the stretch of his rookie season,” USA Today’s Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz wrote.
Sanders is one of the biggest names from the rookie class in Cleveland, possibly the biggest. He even received praise from ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins, who compared him to LeBron James’ rookie season in Cleveland.
“Shedeur got a preseason game feeling like a playoff opener. Like I said, most star power for a Rookie in Cleveland since Lebron,” Perkins posted.
After Sanders’ preseason debut, he was filmed by his brother, Deion Sanders Jr., having a confrontation with a Browns reporter who spoke negatively about him.
“You always say negative stuff about me. I didn’t do nothing to you. I’ve never seen you say anything positive about me,” Sanders told Tony Rossi.
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Rossi recently addressed the confrontation and expressed frustration about it being recorded.
“I didn’t appreciate the fact that this interaction was filmed without my knowledge,” Grossi said. “It turns out, it was his brother, who is documenting everything from his rookie season. That’s fine, just now that I’m aware of it, I’ll be a little more careful and everything,” Rossi added.
Given it was Sanders, Rossi should have expected a camera to be nearby. The Sanders family has always been in the spotlight, so it’s puzzling why he believed it wouldn’t be recorded. If he didn’t want it filmed, perhaps he should reconsider speaking negatively about Sanders. It could have been a video praising the reporter—but it wasn’t, due to Rossi putting himself in that situation.