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Browns HC Kevin Stefanski said that he thought both rookie quarterbacks, third-rounder Dillon Gabriel and fifth-rounder Shedeur Sanders, have done a nice job so far and warned reporters not to look into who is getting a majority of the snaps or the first snap of the day (Gabriel led things off at rookie minicamp).
“Yeah, I wouldn’t look into anything,” Stefanski said, via Pro Football Talk. “I think you’ll see the whole weekend, going through the spring. I mean, we don’t pay too close attention to who’s in that first snap. There are plenty of reps. There’s a lot of time between now and September, so we’ll have a plan. But it’s an all-encompassing evaluation. It’s not something that it’s just based on the practice reps. There’s a lot that goes into it.”
Browns GM Andrew Berry is aware that Sanders is more popular as a fifth-round pick than anyone else in the club’s draft class, but says that he is focused on earning a spot on the roster.
“I know it leads to a lot of conversation and interest in the media and externally — and understandably so,” Berry said. “But for us, we always talk about tuning out the external issues. That doesn’t really matter in terms of how we work, how we prepare. And in terms of Shedeur, his big thing is making the team and earning a role. Listening to the outside noise does nothing to help accomplish those…We’ve typically taken four quarterbacks into camp. Now, the rep distribution had always been maybe a little bit different because we had a clearer or at least entrenched starter. And so this year, obviously, is a little bit different. But I think they’ve done a really nice job of designing the offseason programing and I think the plans that we have for training camp and the preseason, there will be plenty of reps to evaluate all four of those passers.”
