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Daniel Oyefusi
BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders defined why he would not need his father, Deion, to go to him at coaching camp, saying he desires to first “get the place I need to go.”
Deion, a Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer, instructed Michael Irvin that Shedeur instructed him to not go to him at coaching camp due to the restricted reps he has obtained in follow. Deion went to see his different son, Shilo, on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ coaching camp.
“I do not need him coming to see me proper now as a result of I need to get to the place I need to go, then for him to see me,” Shedeur mentioned Monday. “I do not need him to come back and see me get a pair reps, and he’s cheering like a very good dad. Like, nah, you’ll be able to’t be happy with me proper now. I received to get to the place I am going, and I do know it is lots I received to do to get there.
“It is sort of like I simply need all the pieces that I am doing is simply deal with this time, and I do not need no distractions as a result of we all know how the media, we all know how everyone would take it and take away from the group, simply from him being my very own dad exhibiting up. So, it’s a present and a curse on the similar time.”
Shedeur was thought to be one of many high quarterbacks within the 2025 NFL draft earlier than falling to the fifth spherical, the place the Browns chosen him with the 144th decide. Via the primary week of coaching camp, Shedeur is the one quarterback in Cleveland’s four-way competitors who has not obtained reps with the first-team offense.
Shedeur additionally commented on coping with the well being of his father, who introduced final week that he underwent surgical procedure to take away his bladder after medical doctors found a tumor there. Deion mentioned that for the reason that surgical procedure there have been no traces of most cancers and that he’ll proceed to teach soccer on the College of Colorado.
“It is undoubtedly keep targeted mentally,” Shedeur mentioned. “Dad, he is one person who he’ll deal with his, we deal with what we received to. So, it was one thing that we actually ain’t actually have a formal dialog about as a result of, it was like, ‘Y’all must deal with what y’all can deal with. Cannot sit right here and really feel sorry for me, after which that is affecting y’all doing that.'”