“Pulled a Fast One on Us”: Todd Monken Faces Heat as Shedeur Sanders Robbed of His 1st Team Reps

Just when you think you have figured out where the quarterback competition of the Cleveland Browns is headed, a blindside sack knocks the wind out of predictions. That’s exactly what happened on Day 10 of their training camp. Head coach Todd Monken, at the start of the day, said that second-year quarterback Shedeur Sanders will take the majority of first-team reps. What happened next caused 92.3 The Fan’s Daryl Ruiter to call out coach Monken on camera.

“I don’t know if this was intentional, but Todd Monken pulled a fast one on us because before practice he told us, Shedeur Sanders, it was his day to get the first-team reps,” Ruiter said. “Lo and behold! Practice comes, the 7-on-7, the 11-on-11s, Deshaun Watson all day. It was Deshaun.

“And then, what was interesting about the development was that Shedeur seemed to take the fewest snaps with the twos that we have seen in camp. He shared those with Dillon Gabriel up until probably the last two 11-on-11 series and 7-on-7 series of the afternoon when it was Shedeur Sanders getting those number two reps, but that was hard to miss today after what coach had told us before practice.”

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Whenever the question of QB1 came up this offseason, Coach Monken has preached evaluating all four of the quarterbacks properly before deciding anything. He has even noted that Shedeur and Deshaun would each start one preseason game in the last leg of their evaluation. But sliding him to the twos on a day that was supposed to be all about Sanders and the first team has now raised serious questions.

Per ESPN Cleveland’s QB tracker, Sanders went 16-of-20 for no touchdowns and no picks with the second team, while Gabriel, his second-year counterpart, went 5-of-12. Watson, meanwhile, completed 23 of 34 passes for 4 touchdowns and no picks – clearly a good outing. Even then, Todd Monken would have to have a solid reason for his decision, and an answer ready for the Dawg Pound.

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