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It’s been a rough start to the career of Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders off the field. The Colorado product was cited twice for speeding in June and failed to appear in court for one citation. A Browns insider is now warning that these issues are raising a “red flag.”
According to Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot, Sanders was first pulled over on June 5 at 5:13 p.m. for driving 91 mph in a 60 mph zone. This occurred on the last day of the Browns’ OTAs.
Less than two weeks later, he was ticketed again, this time for going 101 mph in a 60 mph zone at 12:34 a.m. on Tuesday. This happened hours after he participated in the Browns’ Youth Camp.
He also failed to appear in court and pay $269 in fines.
Cabot writes that this “sends up a red flag on Sanders’ mindset as he begins his NFL career here.”
“But something is askew here, and the Browns must dig in and discover if it’s a sign of a larger problem, such as the pressure of the competition, or if it’s nothing more than a recent college kid feeling the need for speed in his black Dodge Ram pickup truck,” states Cabot, who noted that the officer who pulled Sanders over referred to the truck as “supercharged.”
Sanders was the talk of April’s NFL Draft, when he slid to the fifth round before the Browns selected him. Once thought to be one of the top quarterback prospects, he was the sixth signal-caller taken. The Browns had already drafted Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel in the third round.
Sanders and Gabriel join Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett in Cleveland’s QB room. Flacco is the most likely starter at the beginning of the season, but nothing is guaranteed, and if Sanders can impress, he has a shot at taking over sometime this season.
Before that can happen, it appears he needs to reassess what he does behind the wheel before it takes a much worse turn.
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