The Browns’ quarterback battle has already become a talking point outside the building, but Shedeur Sanders says that’s not how he and the team are approaching it.
Sanders made it clear his focus is on sharpening his own game rather than getting caught up in the outside noise around a competition with Deshaun Watson. He said the priority is daily improvement, both on and off the field, and letting the rest sort itself out.
“I think the way how y’all look at things is different than how we look at things,” Sanders said, via Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal. “We look at coming to practice every day, being the best player we can be as an individual and as a good teammate.
Y’all look at it as like a competition. That’s not really nothing I’m just focused on.
I’m focused on developing as a player, like doing everything, getting as comfortable as I can in the offense in the scheme and playing with that confidence I had.”
“So I think that’s all I’m really looking for and trying to improve every day, whether it’s mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. I’m just trying to be a better person every day, and wherever that falls into place, it’ll fall into place.”
In Baltimore, Roger Rosengarten is looking ahead with a clear goal of his own. The Ravens offensive tackle, now entering the third year of his career after being a second-round pick in 2024, believes the progress he made last season can carry him into 2026 and help him reach a higher tier at his position.
“I think building from my first and especially my second year, the growth I had there… is going to really build that foundational block,” Rosengarten said, via RavensWire. “To where I establish myself as one of the most elite right tackles in the game.”
Rosengarten said last season brought noticeable improvement in areas like his technique, alignments, and angles, and he feels that momentum kept building as the year went on.
“Everything between my technique and certain alignments and angles… I just kept going forward,” Rosengarten said. “I kept that snowball rolling.”
Across the division in Pittsburgh, Steelers second-round receiver Germie Bernard is already leaning on Aaron Rodgers for help. Bernard said the veteran quarterback has been taking him under his wing and sharing the kind of knowledge that only comes from years in the league.
“Coming in as a rookie and him being an NFL vet, man, he’s just teaching me the game,” Bernard said, via Fox54 in Huntsville, Alabama. “He’s helping me catch up because he thinks I have the potential to play.
He’s just pouring into me as much as he can. I just ask questions and I try to learn, be a sponge as much as I can.
Receive what they’re telling me because they know the best, they’ve been played the game for a long time.”
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