Robert Griffin III calls for Cleveland Browns to trade Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel

by: Nick Kosko 32 minutes ago nickkosko59

Robert Griffin III called for the Cleveland Browns to trade Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel for the sake of the quarterback room. Neither guy is being set up for optimal success while the other is on the roster, per Griffin.

“I think the Cleveland Browns need to trade Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel,” Griffin said on Outta Pocket with RG3. “Right now, they have a toxic environment around their quarterback situation, and it’s not a growth environment for either guy. So right now you need to allow Shedeur Sanders to be the guy that you’re tabbing as your quarterback of the future, or you need to allow Dillon Gabriel to be the quarterback that you’re tabbing as your quarterback of the future. 

“Because having them together on the roster right now, after you traded up to get Dillon Gabriel in the third round, you drafted Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round, after he slid from the first round … You’ve created an environment where there’s so much fanfare around it that the most popular guy on your roster is the fourth-string quarterback on your team, because you made it that way. You didn’t allow him to go out and compete like you would a third round pick in Dillon Gabriel, because you had a third round pick in Dillon Gabriel.” 

Griffin pointed to the last preseason game where Gabriel had more opportunities and situations than Sanders. It already created an uneven playing field and the coaching staff was at fault.

“I don’t think that either Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel are being set up for success right now based on the way things are going,” Griffin said. “This brings me to the point of the last preseason game, Dillon Gabriel played his butt off, absolutely, went out there, executed a two minute drill to perfection. But Shedeur Sanders was not afforded the same opportunity. Not only was Shedeur Sanders put out there with threes, fours and fives on the depth chart, on the offensive line and at wide receiver, Sanders was not allowed to run the two minute drill at the end of the game because they gave that opportunity to Snoop Huntley … 

“No matter how well he ran that two minute drill, or how well he didn’t, it wasn’t going to impact his availability and whether or not he was going to make the 53 man roster. So why wouldn’t you give Shedeur Sanders that opportunity to go out there and have it, juxtaposed against Dillon Gabriel running the two minute drill at the end of the half … It wasn’t just the wrong decision, it was a catastrophically terrible decision on behalf of Kevin Stefanski and the Cleveland Browns organization.” 

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