Browns’ Next QB Move Could Push Out Shedeur Sanders

   

Anew mock draft from ESPN’s Matt Miller has reignited questions about the Cleveland Browns’ long-term quarterback plans and cast fresh doubt on rookie Shedeur Sanders’ future with the team.

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Miller projects the Browns to finish with the worst record in the NFL next season, earning the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 draft and selecting Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik.

“Spending two picks on quarterbacks in 2025 — Dillon Gabriel (third round) and Shedeur Sanders (fifth round) — shouldn’t prevent the Browns from looking for a long-term passer here,” Miller wrote in his first mock draft. “Klubnik enters the season as my No. 1 QB. In 2024, he threw for 3,639 yards, 36 touchdowns and six interceptions, highlighted by a gutsy performance against Texas in the College Football Playoff (336 passing yards, three TDs, one INT). Klubnik reminds me of Baker Mayfield — whom Cleveland selected with the No. 1 pick in 2018 — in terms of arm strength, mobility and playmaking awareness.”

The projection didn’t sit well with longtime analyst and talking head Skip Bayless, a staunch supporter of Sanders who believes he was already unfairly overlooked in this year’s draft.

“[Miller] has the Cleveland Browns finishing worst and picking first. And are you ready for this? Picking a quarterback first overall — Clemson’s Cade Klubnik,” Bayless said. “I believe in Shedeur Sanders, who I thought should have gone No. 1 in this year’s draft. I believe the NFL tried to teach Shedeur and his father, Deion, a big, bad lesson by blackballing him as Shedeur fell all the way into the fifth round, where Cleveland finally took him 50 picks after the Browns had already taken Dillon Gabriel, who, of course, also plays quarterback.”