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One of the NFL’s biggest history lines, this forth season, will be in Berea, Ohio, as Cleveland Browns will have an exciting quarterback competition with their fifth round pick, Shedur Sanders.
Sanders, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and the third round of Pick Dillon Gabriel will all fight for the same job, but the limelight will be bright on the Colorado signal caller after his NFL draft slide for the fifth round made national headlines.
Sanders went from being a first round lock to a fifth round committee that had many scratches their heads discussed his fit in Cleveland after they just chose Gabriel to making him the third quarterback on the depth card next to Flacco and Pickett.
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Colorado Buffalos Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, No. 2, looks at before the game against Arizona Wildcats at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona, October 19, 2024. (Mark J. Revilas-prescribed images)
Although it is expected that Flacco will get the first crack by winning the job, Sanders will have chances to compete with his new teammates to potentially land the exit role.
A quarterback competition is something that Sam Darnold, Seattle Seahawks’ new quarterback, has been through in his career. He could afford the young Sanders who get his first taste of a training camp.
“I think the biggest thing is to have respect,” Darnold told Pakinomist Digital while discussing his time with the Lowe’s Foundation at Skillsusa National Signing Day in Seattle. “To have respect for the teammates with whom you compete.”
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While it is a competition, it is important to remember that these are also teammates chasing the same goal: to win a Super Bowl.
After his failed Stint with the New York Jets, who took him the third overall in the NFL draft in 2018, Darnold jumped around several teams and had to fight his way into the position he was with Minnesota Vikings last season. Even who fought Darnold to win the starting quarterback role, and he served his place to pick his next team in free agency this season.
Darnold specifically looked back at his time with Carolina Panthers, where the player who went two elections ahead of him in the 2018 draft, Baker Mayfield, was his biggest competition in 2022.
Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Sam Darnold, #14, seems to be throwing at Atlanta Falcons during the second quarter at US Bank Stadium. (Matt Krohn-IMAGN images)
“I was in a quarterback competition in my second year in Carolina with Baker. Me and Baker is still really close to this day and we both had such a real respect for each other,” Darnold explained. “Sometimes it wasn’t exactly who got 1’s reps or 2’s reps that day. But when our number was called, whether it was me or baking out there with the 1’s, it was like ‘okay, go out there.’
“So, in the individual exercises that day, if I got 1’s reps, Bake would let me take as a Christian [McCaffrey] on a route or DJ Moore on a route. It was always that respect. So if it was turned, if Bake took 1’s reps, I would let him take all the guys he had to drive with that day.
“I think whether it is Sorteur or anyone else, I just think to have respect for these guys in the Quarterbacks room and help everyone get better. It’s the biggest thing at this time of season and help everyone get better. When you do it, you get better yourself, more than you even know.”
Currently, there is a good chance that Sanders is not the one under Center in Week 1 to begin Browns’ 2025 campaign. How he handles waiting in the wings for his time to shine will also be in the national light.
Colorado Buffaloes Quarterback Sheds Sanders, #2, against Arizona State Sun Devils at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, October 7, 2023. (Mark J. Revilas-usa Today Sports)
If that moment comes, Darnold Sanders wants to think team first.
“When Bake got nodded in week 1, I was like, ‘I’m here for you. All you need if you want me to see the ties of certain third-down looking or any flash packages that the defense may have, I’m here for you,'” Darnold said. “That’s the kind of way in the quarterbacks room, and there’s nothing that simulates it in the real world.”
Celebrating the next generation of trade workers
While Darnold gets his tenant in his new city, he made sure to stop at Lowe’s Seattle Store Ceremony for Skillsusa National Signing Day, which is a party to mirror the tension of athletic signings, but for future electricians, plumber, HVAC technologies and builders.
Lowes rolled out the blue blanket and everything for students who were surprised by Seattle’s latest football star, and this initiative is one that hits close to the home of Darnold. His father, Mike, has been a plumber for 30 plus years.
Sam Darnold, with trading students at Skillsusa National Signing Day with Lowe’s Foundation. (Lowe’s Foundation)
“It was incredible,” Darnold said of the experience. “I have seen the hard work that he put throughout his life into it. So just being able to see these kids and see the hard work they have already put in, get meet them and talk to them about the path they are on their way and how passionate they are about it.
“I think there are so many more opportunities out there in the world’s trading world, and my father and my dad have talked about how not many children do it more. It’s a special opportunity for children to influence their community in ways they probably don’t even know they will.”
New data from ADP shows almost one in five workers aged 20-24 jobs held in blue collar from May 2023. Although it was a 2% increase since 2019, the United States faces a shortage of 439,000 construction workers.
