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Coal was shoveled into the hype train around Cleveland Browns rookie Shedeur Sanders over the last few days as he put together a solid performance in his preseason debut.

Sanders was 14-of-23 with 138 passing yards and two touchdown passes as Cleveland won, 30-10. The stat line was enough to put Sanders in the conversation about whether he would eventually become the team’s starting quarterback in the regular season – at least among sports pundits.

ESPN NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins went a step further and compared him to LeBron James when he entered the league as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

"Shedeur got a preseason game feeling like a playoff opener," the former Boston Celtics center wrote on X. "Like I said, m

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