Some outsiders have accused the Cleveland Browns of "sabotaging" Shedeur Sanders by not giving the rookie quarterback any first-team reps as he prepared to start Cleveland's preseason opener at the Carolina Panthers on Friday night.

For a piece updated early Friday afternoon, Browns insider Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer explained the club's handling of Sanders from springtime workouts through Cleveland's joint practice with the Panthers on Wednesday.

"He’s had to get up to speed in all aspects of the pre-snap process, including relaying plays in the huddle, identifying the defense, sliding the protections, directing the motions and making adjustments," Cabot wrote about Sanders. "...The fact that Sanders had to catch up on the terminology, calling complex plays and ot

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