It remains to be seen whether Shedeur Sanders will make the Browns roster, but his ability to draw eyeballs to the screen is unquestioned.

Sanders got the start for the Cleveland Browns in their preseason opener against the Carolina Panthers on Friday in a game that was broadcast on NFL Network. The game drew a whopping 2.237 million viewers.

According to the NFL, those numbers made the game the league’s most-watched preseason game since 2015.

Sanders’ draft day slide was one of the most intensely covered and debated events in recent NFL history. While media talking heads and draft prognosticators seemed to think Sanders was – at worst – a late first or early second round pick. NFL teams had a different idea, as Sanders fell, not just out of the first and second rounds, but also the thi

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