Shedeur Sanders took his first official NFL snap as a starter Sunday and left Allegiant Stadium with a 24-10 victory.
He finished the game with 11 of 20 passing for 209 yards with one touchdown and one interception, a mixed-but-encouraging stat line, and a franchise-wide debate finally moving from speculation into action.
Sanders earned the start after rookie Dillon Gabriel, once the Browns’ starting quarterback, entered concussion protocol — a move up the depth chart fans had been demanding for weeks.
Those calls for Sanders to start had grown louder all season, with some outsiders suggesting the coaching staff had been slow to play him or even that Stefanski had been deliberately stunting his opportunities.
Stefanski publicly pushed back on any “sabotage” narrative after Sunday's

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