{"id":29960,"date":"2025-08-08T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=29960"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:57:09","slug":"breaking-stephen-a-smith-makes-attention-catching-browns-shedeur-sanders-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=29960","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Stephen A. Smith makes attention-catching Browns’ Shedeur Sanders claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stephen A. Smith makes an eye-opening statement regarding the Browns’ decision to start Shedeur Sanders for the preseason opener.<\/p>\n

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With the Cleveland Browns starting Shedeur Sanders for the preseason opener against the Carolina Panthers on Friday night, it comes after there have been injuries to such players as Dillon Gabriel and Kenny Pickett. As the football world reacts to the Browns naming Sanders the starter for the preseason contest, Stephen A. Smith has an eye-opening take, accusing the team of putting the quarterback in a bad situation.<\/p>\n

Smith would be on \u201cFirst Take\u201d on ESPN, where he would be asked about the quarterback more at stake between Sanders and Indianapolis’ Anthony Richardson for the game. Subsequently, the sports analyst would say it’s Sanders and how he is \u201cbeing set up to fail\u201d by Cleveland.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I’m gonna answer this question by saying Shedeuyr Sanders, and I’m gonna tell you why, I think he’s being set up to fail,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThat’s right, I’m gonna say it. Okay. Here we are on national television, right? There’s been 11 practices, if I remember correctly, he’s been starting against the third unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s fourth on the depth chart, and then suddenly you throw him into the starting lineup, and he hasn’t had any reps with the first team at all,\u201d Sanders continued. \u201cThink about that. So you’re just gonna throw him to the wolves like that, huh? I mean, you know, if he had first team snaps in practice, I don’t say that, but he doesn’t, and then all of a sudden, he’s starting tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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"I think [Shedeur Sanders] is being set up to fail."<\/p>\n

\u2014@stephenasmith<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gU32q1s2Cw<\/a><\/p>\n

— First Take (@FirstTake) August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n