Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders has picked up a pair of speeding tickets this month. Video of the second incident has emerged.
Alex Raskin of the Daily Mail has posted obtained and posted it.
A woman identified as Sanders’s girlfriend was pulled over at the same time, in a different car. The officer said she was driving 92 miles per hour.
The officer decided not to give her a ticket. The officer said he had to ticket Sanders, given that his speed exceeded 100 miles per hour.
There’s no suggestion that the two may have been racing. Regardless, they were in two separate cars and they both were traveling at a high rate of speed.
After a pair of speeding tickets since June 5, Browns quarterback Sheduer Sanders is taking some heat. Appearing at teammate David Njoku’s charity softball game, Sanders addressed the situation.
“I made some wrong choices personally and I can own up to them,” Sanders said. “I made some, you know, not great choices. . . . I learned. I learned. . . . I learned.”
The words look good. The delivery didn’t match them. Watch it and decide for yourself on whether the attitude matches the message.
Whether he has truly gotten the message will be revealed by future behavior. He should have known everyone was paying attention to everything he does. If he didn’t before, he does now.
When news first emerged on Wednesday of Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders being ticketed for driving 101 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone, my reaction was this: Let he who has not driven 100 mph or faster cast the first set of keys.
The latest development changes things.
It wasn’t Sanders’s first speeding ticket. This month.
Via Alex Darus of Cleveland.com, Sanders was pulled over on June 5 for driving 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. He was fined $150 with another $99 in court costs. He failed to appear at a June 16 arraignment regarding the ticket.
The next day, the second ticket happened.
The Browns said that they have addressed the situation with Sanders.
“He is taking care of the tickets,” spokesperson Peter John-Baptiste told Darus.
Anyone who has gotten a speeding ticket (and I have, two or three times over the years) takes it easy after getting pulled over. Pushing the speedometer past 100 mph only days after being caught speeding isn’t something most would do.
Generally speaking, driving too fast isn’t a character issue. Driving too fast by 41 mph not long after being pulled over for driving too fast by 25 mph is an awareness issue.
Especially when the driver is or should be fully aware that anything and everything the driver does is going to be amplified and scrutinized.
Will it matter if Sanders lights it up on the practice field during trainin g camp? No. Will it be mentioned one or twice, or more often, if he doesn’t perform well? Absolutely.
Until then, one thing is clear. Sheduer needs to drive more slowly. If he keeps getting caught speeding, he eventually won’t be driving at all.
Based on our very rudimentary understanding of the Ohio point system, Shedeur will have six points based on the two tickets (two for the first and four for the second). That puts him halfway toward having his license suspended for six months.
The Browns have swapped one tight end for another.
Cleveland announced on Thursday that the club has signed Sal Cannella and waived Tre’ McKitty.
Cannella just finished the UFL season with the Arlington Renegades, where he caught 44 passes for 474 yards with a touchdown. In 2024, he led the UFL in touchdown receptions.
While he’s previously spent time with the Dolphins, Packers, Seahawks, and Buccaneers, Cannella has not appeared in a regular-season game.
McKitty initially joined Cleveland’s practice squad last December and signed a futures deal in January to remain with the team.
The Cowboys are signing cornerback Robert Rochell and defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey, Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports.
Rochell became a free agent May 6 when the Chiefs released him after spending two months on the offseason roster.
Rochell appeared in 48 games for the Rams and Packers the past four seasons, playing mostly special teams. He has 25 tackles, an interception and three forced fumbles in his career.
In 2024 with the Packers, Rochell played one defensive snap and 121 on special teams.
Winfrey has not played in the NFL since 2023, which also was the last time he was on a roster. The Browns, who drafted him in the fourth round in 2022, released him a year later after a second off-field incident.
He later signed with the Jets’ practice squad and appeared in one game in 2023.
Winfrey has not been in the league since, but he earned All-UFL honors this season with the Birmingham Stallions. Winfrey totaled 29 tackles and a sack.
Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders was ticketed in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville for driving 101 miles per hour in a 60 mph zone.
Fox 8 in Cleveland reports that police records show Sanders received a citation for driving 101 mph on 71 North at 12:24 a.m. on Tuesday. Sanders can either pay a fine or contest the ticket in court.
A speeding ticket is far from the worst offense a person can commit, but this won’t do anything to challenge perceptions that Sanders lacks the maturity NFL teams look for in their franchise quarterback. Once the betting favorite to be the first overall pick in the draft, Sanders fell to the fifth round amid talk that teams weren’t impressed with the way he conducted himself during the pre-draft process.
Sanders is part of a four-way quarterback competition in Cleveland, with Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel.
The Browns have officially let go of one of their rookies.
Via the league’s daily transaction wire, Cleveland waived receiver Ja’seem Reed off of injured reserve.
The Browns had initially waived Reed with an injury designation midway through last month and he reverted to IR after clearing waivers.
Reed had signed with Cleveland as an undrafted free agent out of the University of San Diego, where he caught 77 passes for 1,052 yards with 12 touchdowns in 2024.
The Browns have made a promotion within their front office.
Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, Cleveland has elevated Adam Al-Khayyal to director of player personnel.
Al-Khayyal, 36, is entering his 11th season with the Browns. He was previously the team’s director of pro scouting, having served in that role since 2022. He was the assistant director of pro personnel from 2020-2021.
He replaces Dan Saganey, who departed Cleveland to join Tennessee as vice president of player personnel.
The quarterback-challenged Browns have a different kind of challenge at the quarterback position.
They have too many.
At a time when many outsiders presume they won’t take Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel, and Shedeur Sanders to training camp, the team is putting out the word that it will strongly consider carrying four quarterbacks on the 53-man roster.
Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reports that there’s a chance they’ll enter — and exit — the 2025 regular season without moving on from any of them.
“Thanks in part to low base salaries and cap numbers for all of them, they can afford to keep all four from a financial standpoint, and it also makes sense from a roster building standpoint,” Cabot writes.
It’s definitely doable from a cap standpoint. The quartet of QBs has a combined cap number of $7.6 million, roughly one-fifth of Deshaun Watson’s $35.971 million cap charge for 2025 (next year, Watson’s cap number spikes to more than $80 million).
But the impact of having four quarterbacks on the active roster shouldn’t be minimized. Although Cabot downplays (surely because the Browns have downplayed to her) having four quarterbacks on the 53-man roster by saying “the Browns can find a way to keep all four QBs by borrowing a spot from another position, even if it’s just until the trade deadline,” giving up a roster spot along the offensive line or defensive line or running back room or some other position is a pretty big deal — especially as players suffer short-term injuries that make them unavailable on a given Sunday.
Few if any teams ever have four quarterbacks on the 53-man roster. Most stick with two.
It’s entirely possible that the Browns are putting out the notion that they plan to take all four quarterbacks to training camp in order to create some/any trade leverage. If no one believes they’ll keep quarterbacks in the fold for camp (one of them surely won’t get the reps he needs to compete), no one will be willing to offer anything for the odd man out (we continue to think that, if there is one, it’s Pickett).
If the Browns do indeed bring all four to camp, the question of whether they’ll keep four will linger through the deadline for cutting the rosters to 53 and until the trade deadline.
If the Browns don’t get an acceptable offer for Pickett before it’s time to cut the roster from 90 to 53, one potential short-term approach could be to cut Flacco, sign him to the practice squad, and bring him up to the active roster every week. It’s the 54-man roster trick, where a vested veteran who doesn’t have to pass through waivers (until the trade deadline) plays along with the approach.
Regardless, the Browns need a plan for the kind of quarterback complication they didn’t expect when they committed $230 million to Watson. With Watson injured (again), the question isn’t whether they have a replacement. The question is whether they have too many.
At least they employ a Chief Strategy Officer. Even if, more often than not, that position seems to be cover for the whims of ownership.
Myles Garett signed a new deal with the Browns this offseason, but the defensive end is still keeping an eye on the market.
Cowboys defensive end Micah Parsons said recently that the team’s decision to wait on signing him to a long-term contract extension is going to wind up costing them more money in the long run and that makes it likelier that his next deal is going to push him ahead of Garrett as the league’s highest-paid defensive player. That would make for a short reign at the top for Garrett, but he doesn’t sound like the prospect of Parsons resetting the bar is causing him any grief.
“I think he deserves whatever he’s earned,” Garrett said, via Abby Jones of DLLS Sports. “Once I got the chance to train with him. I’ve seen his work ethic. I’ve seen how he attacks. The weights. Running. He’s 100% committed to his craft and getting better every day. He has that level of dedication to the game. He should get every penny he’s owed.”
Steelers star T.J. Watt could also surpass Garrett as he pushes for a new deal with the Steelers and the top spot may come down to which player waits the longest to get their deal done. However that plays out, it’s been a rising tide for all edge rushers this offseason.
