The NFL is a harsh environment, even for the game’s best players.

But that is especially true if you are a rookie backup quarterback.

No matter if you are the No. 1 overall selection entering a nationally televised game and leading your team to a historic victory despite having no practice reps, or a fifth-round selection entering a regionally televised game and putting up a performance not seen in the NFL in more than 40 years, you have one job.

Be ready because you never know when you will be called upon to play.

That lesson was on full display Sunday afternoon at Huntington Bank Field, when the Cleveland Browns opened the second half of the game with Shedeur Sanders at quarterback because Dillon Gabriel had suffered a concussion.

Sanders went on to complete just four-of-16 passes f

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