Browns Coach Says Not To 'look Into' Dillon Gabriel Taking First Snaps Over Shedeur Sanders

The Cleveland Browns began rookie minicamp Friday, and rookie quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders took nan section for nan first time. 

Gabriel was selected successful nan 3rd round, while Sanders was picked successful nan 5th information aft an unprecedented slide. Gabriel received nan first snaps of nan day, but caput coach Kevin Stefanski cautioned astir reference excessively overmuch into that.

"Yeah, I wouldn’t look into anything," Stefanski said, via a transcript from nan Browns. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) watches arsenic backmost Dillon Gabriel (5) throws during rookie minicamp astatine nan Cleveland Browns training analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

"I deliberation you’ll spot nan full weekend, going done nan spring. I mean, we don’t salary excessively adjacent attraction to who’s successful that first snap."

Stefanski said he thought "both guys did a bully job" but did not perpetrate to who would beryllium getting nan first snaps successful Saturday’s practice. 

The Browns caput coach emphasized not to look "too overmuch into" who receives nan first snaps, and that nan squad has a plan. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) useful pinch quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave during an NFL rookie minicamp astatine nan Cleveland Browns training analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

"There’s a batch of clip betwixt now and September, truthful we’ll person a plan. But it’s an all-encompassing evaluation. It’s not thing that it’s conscionable based connected nan believe reps. There’s a batch that goes into it," Stefanski said. 

The Browns person 5 quarterbacks connected their roster pinch nary clear Week 1 starter. Deshaun Watson ruptured his Achilles tendon again successful January aft he underwent room connected that aforesaid tendon successful October 2024, and his position for nan upcoming play is successful doubt. 

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders leaves nan section aft nan first time of NFL rookie minicamp astatine nan Cleveland Browns training analyzable Friday, May 9, 2025, successful Berea, Ohio. (Imagn)

The Browns acquired Kenny Pickett successful a waste and acquisition pinch the Philadelphia Eagles and signed Joe Flacco to a one-year statement earlier nan NFL Draft. With nan additions of Gabriel and Sanders to an already packed backmost room, it remains to beryllium seen who will get nan Week 1 nod.  

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