{"id":70036,"date":"2025-06-15T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=70036"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:55:30","slug":"ex-chiefs-head-coach-makes-shocking-prediction-on-shedeur-sanders-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=70036","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chiefs Head Coach Makes Shocking Prediction on Shedeur Sanders Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shedeur-Sanders-Future-Prediction.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shedeur-Sanders-Future-Prediction.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shedeur-Sanders-Future-Prediction.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shedeur-Sanders-Future-Prediction.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Ex-Chiefs Head Coach Makes Shocking Prediction on Shedeur Sanders Future\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Shedeur Sanders may have a brighter future than anyone believes, according to Herm Edwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns have five quarterbacks on their roster. One, Joe Flacco, is a Super Bowl MVP and 17-year veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Another, Kenny Pickett, was a first-round draft pick just three years ago. Deshaun Watson remains injured, but the fourth QB was the Browns\u2019 third-round pick this year, 96th overall, out of Oregon. That was Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>Finally there is the Browns\u2019 fifth-round pick this year. But that one, the low man in the Cleveland QB pecking order may be the one who ends up winning the starting job \u2014 Shedeur Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that was the rather startling prediction offered by a former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, Herm Edwards, speaking on Friday in a radio interview.<\/p>\n<h2>Sanders \u2018Knows How to Do Things\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a pro. He knows how to do things,\u201d the Chiefs coach from 2006 to 2008 said of the former Colorado signal caller. \u201cHe\u2019s going about it the right way. When the lights come on and they start playing in the preseason \u2014 look out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Edwards, who also coached the New York Jets from 2001 through 2005 before taking over the Chiefs\u2019 job, went on to make a more specific and shocking prediction. Despite being the quarterback with the least credentials, Sanders will beat out his three competitors and become the Browns\u2019 starter.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when the preseason starts, the eye test tells me, he\u2019s going to find a way to beat those guys out,\u201d the 71-year-old Edwards said in the interview.<\/p>\n<div id=\"a0fc293d24ff66ec4293e100fe900045\">\n<div>\n<article>\ud83d\udc40 Herm Edwards on Shedeur Sanders:<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is true that despite holding a highly coveted NFL head coach\u2019s job for eight years, three with the Chiefs, Edwards was not the most successful head coach. In his final year with Kansas City he guided the team to a 2-14 season. In four of his eight years, his teams finished with losing records. So perhaps his credibility is not the highest.<\/p>\n<h2>Not Just Edwards Seeing Bright Future for Sanders<\/h2>\n<p>It should be added, then, that Edwards this week was not alone in predicting that Sanders will open the 2025 season as the Browns\u2019 starter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be so much pressure put on this organization. It has been years and years and years since the Browns have had a consistent, good quarterback. And you sneak and get this one in the fifth round,\u201d said analyst James Jones of the <em>FS1<\/em> network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he steps into this preseason and he plays well and he looks like he\u2019s been looking out here at practice, and he looks like the Shedeur Sanders from Colorado, you have to start this young boy week one,\u201d Jones continued.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is perhaps best known for his media-friendly personality and sophisticated ability to market himself commercially \u2014 a trait he likely picked up from his father and college coach Deion Sanders, an NFL Hall of Famer, eight-time Pro Bowl pick, and inarguably one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time. But the elder Sanders has also made the most of his flamboyant persona as \u201cPrime Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But based on reports from the Browns spring practices, the quarterback \u201cmade an impression\u201d on his coaches. As a result, when training camp opens in late July, Shedeur Sanders\u2019 bid to out-compete his fellow quarterbacks will likely be taken more seriously than a typical fifth round pick in a crowded field otherwise would be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Shedeur Sanders continues to progress in training camp like he has over the past two weeks, he\u2019ll narrow the gap on the other three Browns quarterbacks in the competition,\u201d wrote Browns correspondent Mary Kay Cabot of <em>Cleveland.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Chiefs<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Browns have five quarterbacks on their roster. One, Joe Flacco, is a Super Bowl MVP and 17-year veteran.Another, Kenny Pickett, was a first-round draft pick just three years ago. Deshaun Watson remains injured, but the fourth QB was the Browns\u2019 third-round pick this year, 96th overall, out of Oregon. 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