{"id":22624,"date":"2025-05-11T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2025-05-11T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:27:43","slug":"breaking-hanford-dixon-raves-about-promising-browns-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=22624","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Hanford Dixon Raves About Promising Browns Rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22625\" src=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Hanford-Dixon-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Hanford-Dixon-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Hanford-Dixon-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo by Jonathan Daniel\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Browns exited the 2025 NFL Draft with one of the most intriguing rookie classes in the league, highlighted by No. 5 pick Mason Graham, who the franchise hopes can be the anchor of the defense for the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Graham isn\u2019t the only Browns rookie that has people excited, and franchise legend Hanford Dixon is among that group who is particularly excited about another high-profile first-year Brown.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of The Hanford Dixon Show, Dixon expressed how he can\u2019t wait to see the same quarterback everyone else is dying to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brownsnation.com\/wp-content\/cache\/webp-cache\/b53c2ff751006a3828ffd77fd9ecbfa3.webp\" alt=\"Hanford Dixon Raves About Promising Browns Rookie\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to see Shedeur. I want to see what he\u2019s going to do. I want to see him take over that quarterback room. I want to see him prove a lot of the players, a lot of the people wrong that he should\u2019ve been drafted higher. I think he\u2019s going to play a lot better than what his draft number\u2019s saying,\u201d Dixon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/05\/10\/NABJ\/83553981007-shedeur-rookie-camp-day-1-4.JPG?width=1200&amp;disable=upscale&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders' first news conference at Browns rookie minicamp\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who in this year&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Browns<\/a> draft class are you most EXCITED to see? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HanfordDixon29?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HanfordDixon29<\/a> shares who he is eager to see excel. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DawgPound?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DawgPound<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I want to see what Sheduer is going to do and I want to see him take over that Quarterback room.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liptonhardtea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@liptonhardtea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/liptonhardtea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#liptonhardtea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bk2bOJVdej\">pic.twitter.com\/bk2bOJVdej<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hanford Dixon Show (@TopDawgShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TopDawgShow\/status\/1921226221905481882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a common take for a player who was once in the conversation to be the first overall pick, but slid all the way to No. 144 in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p>Shedeur is part of a quarterback room where he\u2019ll have every opportunity to compete for the starting role, though it will be an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still hard for fans and the media to grasp the fact that Sanders fell from a projected top-10 pick all the way to the fifth round, which guarantees him nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Lost in all of this is the fact that he wasn\u2019t even the first quarterback taken by the Browns, as Dillon Gabriel will also be competing alongside him for playing time after being taken in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s far too early to tell who will grab hold of this QB room, but at least the team has options now and doesn\u2019t have to endure another year of Deshaun Watson.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Cleveland Browns exited the 2025 NFL Draft with one of the most intriguing rookie classes in the league, highlighted by No. 5 pick Mason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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