Overview
- Early padded practice work has tilted in Shedeur Sanders’s favor with roughly a 70% completion rate and multiple touchdown throws while Deshaun Watson has thrown several interceptions in 11-on-11 drills.
- General manager Andrew Berry and coach Todd Monken say the competition is performance‑based and that the team will use the full body of padded practices and preseason play to name a Week 1 starter.
- Todd Monken has also praised Dillon Gabriel for earning increased reps, keeping him in the conversation and complicating how the Browns will allocate roster spots among four quarterbacks.
- Reporters and beat writers offered mixed evaluations of Sanders’s game, noting his higher completion rate but renewed concerns about slow time‑to‑throw and decision making that could limit his readiness.
- Watson is returning from consecutive Achilles surgeries and is in the final year of a fully guaranteed, high‑value deal, a reality that raises durability and financial stakes if he fails to reestablish himself in the preseason.