NFL News: Shemer Sanders should play in the last pre-season match Browns

Cleveland Browns Shemer Sanders’ quarter-arre will return to action during the team’s last pre-season match.

Sanders missed the second pre-season match of the Browns against the Philadelphia Eagles with an oblique injury, but head coach Kevin Stefanski confirmed that he would play against the Rams of Los Angeles on Saturday.

“He feels better and better. So, unless everything, if he did not feel well tomorrow, which I do not plan that he would play, he would play on Saturday,” said Stefanski at a press conference on Thursday.

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Cleveland Browns Shemer Sanders Quarterrier launched his first pass of a hit in the first half of a pre-season match against the Carolina Panthers on August 8, 2025, in Charlotte, NC (AP photo / Rusty Jones)

Joe Flacco will start and should play from 25 to 30 snaps, while the quarter-Arrière Recruue Dillon Gabriel will take the second quarter and Sanders the third.

Sanders began the first pre-season game of the team against the Caroline Panthers and impressed, finishing 14 of the 23 passes for 138 yards and two affected.

In this match, Gabriel was sidelined with an injury to the hamstrings and did not play. He made his professional debut against the Eagles last week and had mixed results, completing 13 of the 18 passes for 143 yards, but launching a pick-six and losing an escape from a sloppy transfer.

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Cleveland Browns Shemer Sanders quarterrier looks in the first half of a pre-season match against the Carolina Panthers on August 8, 2025, in Charlotte, NC (AP photo / Rusty Jones)

Saturday’s match with the Rams will be the first pre-season match in which the two quarters recruits see the action. It may also be their last chance for an extended playing time for a while after Flacco was appointed quarter-arre starting from the team earlier this week.

On the depth board of the Browns, Kenny Pickett is listed as the backup of Flacco, Gabriel is third String and Sanders is fourth.

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Cleveland Browns Shemer Sanders quarterrier passes against the Carolina Panthers in the first half of August 8, 2025, in Charlotte, NC (AP photo / Jacob Kupferman)

Pickett has been sidelined with an injury to the hamstrings since the end of July. The choice of the draft of Pittsburgh Steelers 2017 did not play this pre-season and will not play on Saturday.

The last pre-season match of the Browns against the Rams starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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