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Shedeur Sanders is not ready for his Hall of Fame -dad to visit Cleveland Browns Training camp just yet.
While talking to the media Monday after missing Saturday’s practice of arm tenderness, rookie -quarterback was asked why he told his father, Colorado football Coach Deion Sanders, not to visit training camp yet.
Head coach Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his journey to beat bladder cancer during a press conference at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, Monday 28 July 2025. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
“I don’t want him to see me right now because I want to get to the place I want to go, so for him to see me,” Sanders said.
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“I don’t want him to see me getting a few reps and he is cheering like a good dad. Like, no, you can’t be proud of me right now. I have to get to the place I am going and I know it’s a lot I have to do to get there.”
Sanders added that he intends to “focus on this time, I won’t have any distractions”, and noticing that having having a nfl The legend as a father is both “a gift and a curse.”
“We know how everyone would take it, like taking away from the team, with my own father showing up. It’s a gift and a curse at the same time.”
Cleveland Browns Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Right, signs autographs after a practice on the team’s NFL football training camp on Saturday, July 26, 2025 in Berea, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Richard)
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Sanders is currently listed as the fourth-string quarterback on Browns’ depth cards, although his official term has not been made. He has not yet had any snaps with first -layer violations, but he has faced the first layer of the first layer while taking snaps with the second and third teams violation.
Sanders told journalists that he hopes Friday’s Forsy Season Fight Against Carolina Panthers Gives him the opportunity to show his skill set.
Cleveland Browns Quarterback Shedeur Sanders warms up during a practice on the team’s NFL football training camp on Friday 25 July 2025 in Berea, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Richard)
“The truth is that I don’t care what o-line I go out there with. It might be them, two, triangles, no matter what the situation is. And I know Friday when the game is, if I’m with two, if I’m with triangles. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m just ready to come down and get to do what I could.”
