Shedeur Sanders has kindled a positive relationship with everyone in the Cleveland Browns' QB room. Not just Joe Flacco.
The Browns' QBs collectively pitched in their feedback to help Sanders improve his play during the minicamp.
The veteran-most among the group, Joe Flacco, praised Sanders's growth and suggested how the rookie can improve; the standard for any rookie.
"Some of the times, those completions, maybe they could have put the ball somewhere else. But I think for young quarterbacks, to be able to not try to force things and sometimes just take the checkdown and take the low guy can show a lot of growth and can show some maturity," Flacco said Wednesday, per Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports.
Pickett, on the other hand, guided the rookies on how to shift between three-, five-, and seven-step drops under center.
"The more reps you get, the more comfortable you’ll be," Pickett said. "Unfortunately, in a situation like this, you may only get one play, one time, the entire camp. So you got to try to maximize as much as you can."
Even the injured Deshaun Watson, who is almost not expected to play in the 2025 season, chipped in with some constructive criticism.
"He referenced his own experience running the same red-zone concept during a game, and he explained the need to peek the inside route before throwing outside. Watson emphasized how the footwork would make or break the play’s timing," Epstein wrote of Watson's advice to Sanders.
It is clear that Sanders' training to become the next face of the browns is seriously underway, with lessons extending far beyond head coach Kevin Stefanski, OC Tommy Rees, and quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave.
"When it’s everybody in there, it’s really graduate level. Prior to those meetings and sometimes after, if time allows, get the rookies by themselves and then you slow it down," Stefanski added.
The process for both Sanders and Gabriel looks promising amid the dire condition the Browns' QB room is in, or rather has been. Even though neither of the two seems ready enough to take over the starting QB role just yet, the efforts are there to make them the potential long-term starters.
Call it a last-ditch effort or not, the Browns appear to be pulling out all the stops this time.