Travis Kelce calls on Browns to start Shemer Sanders in the middle of the controversy

Travis Kelce spoke of the controversy in progress on the role of Sheder Sanders with the Browns of Cleveland.

During his podcast “New Heights” this week, the star of the Kansas City chiefs said that he thought that the Browns should start Sanders, third in the depth of the team behind the veteran Joe Flacco and his compatriot recruit Dillon Gabriel.

Travis Kelce spoke of the role of Sheder Sanders with the Browns on the last episode of the “New Heights” podcast, which was broadcast before the official start of the NFL season. (Imagn)

“Give people what they want, in terms of Browns fans. Start Shemer. … Put it in a coach,” said Kelce. “Give people what they want. The world wants to see him go there, and not only play, but have success. At this point, the guys approach him.

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“I would love F — ING see him, guy.”

On the contrary, the brother and co-host of Kelce, Jason Kelce, defended the team appointing Joe Flacoco as a starter.

“(Browns Kevin’s head coach) Stefanski and the Browns try to do what they feel gives them the best chance of winning football matches,” said Jason. “If the Browns and Kevin Stefanski felt their best option and the most confident option they had to win about matches was SheDer Sanders, they would play it.”

However, Jason admitted that he “wanted to” see Sanders playing.

“What do I want? I want to see SheDer Sanders,” said Jason.

Jason also rejected the “conspiracies” surrounding the situation to explain why Sanders is as low on the depth table as him.

Critics and conspiracy theories directed against the Browns reappeared after the team’s pre-season final on Saturday.

Sanders entered the match in the third quarter and made three of the six passes for 14 yards, while taking five bags for a combined loss of 41 yards against the Rams of Los Angeles. He scored less than 27 yards for Cleveland before being withdrawn from the match on the final disc and replaced by the veteran Tyler Huntley.

Huntley led the Browns offensive on a field campaign, and the Browns won 19-17.

It was far from the first Sanders pre-season match against the Carolina Panthers on August 8, when he launched two affected and was rented by sports fans and stars, including LeBron James and Dawn Staley.

However, many fans and experts quickly defended Sanders for its brutal release on Saturday and blamed the Browns coach for putting Sanders in a position where he had to count on rescue teammates while calling questionable games.

The former NBA player makes the Sanders-Lebron James Shemer comparison after the beginnings of the pre-season of QB

Jason Kelce on the countdown of the ESPN qualifiers at the 2025 Pro Bowl games at the World Stadium campsite on February 2, 2025. (Images Kirby Lee / Imagn)

The former NFL quarter, Derek Carr, asked why Sanders was not left in the match to finish the last training.

“I need to understand why we do not see SheDer Sanders carrying out this 2-minute exercise? Wouldn’t you want to see your young QB operate in this situation? Give him more representatives for the future? I have not seen the whole game, so maybe he has already shown enough? Help me understand this …” wrote Carr on X.

The Sportive Skip Bayless Talk-Show host posted a 16-minute diatriber in defense of Sanders on X, while condemning the Browns for their handling of the quarter.

“They sabotaged him. They fired him against him today, putting him in place with third and fourth strings, fifth-checks. You did not receive any shot in the quarter,” said Bayless.

Other users on social media have upgraded criticism similar to the Browns, some specifying that the obstacles put in front of the quarterrier are intentional.

Before this match, the NFL renowned temple Eric Dickerson Compli’s accomplice theories linked to Sanders in a recent interview, saying that the NFL teams “had been invited not to” go back to Sanders “to make an example” of the quarterrier when he fell in the fifth round of the NFL draft in April.

“I tell you a lot, what I heard about someone in the NFL (is) that the NFL said (teams),” do not write it, do not write it “,” said Dickerson in a recent interview on the program “Roggin and Rodney” on AM 570 Sports.

“” We are going to make an example of him. “And it came from a very good source, a very good source. I mean, look, the NFL has all kinds of power.

The shift of Sanders outside the first round shocked many, including President Donald Trump, who condemned the owners of the League for having transmitted the quarter-arre in a social post of truth.

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith revealed a text message from a partner who compared the situation to Colin Kaepernick being outside the NFL since 2016, suggesting “collusion”.

“‘It is a bad look for the NFL. It looks like the collusion of Kaepernick level’,” said Smith about the content of the text, adding that the situation goes beyond “the assessment of talents”.

“All the hard work that the NFL League office carries out to eradicate this kind of perceptions, only to turn around and look at the owners seem to be collusion, spoil everything. What was done for SheDer will surprise everything in this project. We will never believe in a simple assessment of talents.”

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Cleveland Browns Shemer Sanders quarter-arre against the Philadelphia Eagles in a match at Lincoln Financial Field. (Kyle Ross / Imagn images)

Sanders was finally taken by the Browns on the third and last day of the draft with the 144th choice. The quarter-back was initially considered a possible candidate for the first global choice at the start of the draft process after completing his last season in Colorado.

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