Let's get the important qualifiers out of the way first in order to satisfy the people who won't want to hear what I have to suggest: Yes, Shedeur Sanders' first NFL start, which went fairly well, took place against the Carolina Panthers' defense-a unit that was historically bad a year ago and is now trotting out a vanilla, backup-laden iteration of itself.

And, perhaps, this is what we should get out of the way first. It's disappointing that however Sanders became a fifth-round pick -in some peoples' minds, the arrogance and brashness and omnipresence of those around Sanders making it impossible to believe he could be a high-upside backup with little distraction, in others that Sanders was never going to go in the first or second round due to talent, in others' still that Sanders r

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