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Shedeur Sanders turned heads in his preseason debut, and after the game he let one of his critics know about it.
The Browns’ rookie quarterback, the son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, was terrific Friday night as the starter.
He threw for 138 yards and two touchdowns in a 30-10 win over the Panthers.
Afterwards, a YouTube video posted by half-brother Deion Sanders Jr., shows him confronting one of the team’s beat writers, Tony Rossi of ESPN, in the bowels of Bank of America Stadium.
Sanders, the most famous fifth-round pick in recent memory, kept the chat mostly upbeat, but he did let his feelings be known.
“Tony, I be hoping you have something positive to say about me,” Sanders told Grossi in the video. “You only say negative stuff about me. And I’m like, ‘I ain’t do nothing to you.’”
Grossi’s response was inaudible, but it looks like he was trying to offer his side.
“I ain’t hear nothing positive you’ve ever said,” said Sanders, who then laughed and gave Grossi a friendly pat on the shoulder.
“What I do to you, Tony?” Sanders said with a laugh as he walked away.
Grossi did offer Sanders praise.
“I thought Shedeur was outstanding,” he said during an appearance on ESPN Cleveland afterwards.
He later wrote: “My bottom line on Shedeur Sanders’ impressive debut: He put the pressure on QB2 Kenny Pickett and QB3 Dillon Gabriel to get healthy and perform next week.”
Grossi has been critical of Sanders throughout the start of training camp.
On ESPN Cleveland this week, he questioned the circumstances around the 2024 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year missing a practice due to a sore arm.
That led to a viral outburst from Tony Rizzo during his daily radio show, The Really Big Show.
Sanders, who infamously fell from a potential first-round pick to going in the fifth round, is looking to use this performance to vault up the Browns’ depth chart.
