‘I Don’t Watch TV’ — Browns Star Shedeur Sanders Makes it Clear He’s Turning a Blind Eye to NFL Media’s Criticism
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Shedeur Sanders has heard what people are saying about him. He’s choosing not to let it distract him.
Asked if anything about his media coverage bothered him, Sanders told Kevin Clark that he has tuned it all out.
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Shedeur Sanders Stopped Paying Attention to the Critics
“I don’t watch TV at all. That is fair. I don’t do it. I remove everything, everything possibly negative about my life. I remove,” he told the “This is Football” host.
It was a fitting response for a quarterback who spent his rookie campaign under a microscope.
Sanders finished 2025 with 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns, and 10 interceptions, numbers that saw him land at #37 out of 38 quarterbacks in Pro Football Network’s QB Impact Rankings. Only Tennessee’s Cam Ward graded worse.
But according to Sanders, the criticism isn’t really what’s bothering him. It’s something deeper. He told Clark his whole outlook shifted once he started separating what actually matters from what doesn’t.
“I was saying by just understanding what really matters in this world and what doesn’t,” Sanders explained, adding that the shift has “really, really, really changed” how he approaches everything, down to “every single little thing.”
When Clark pushed him to pinpoint the moment that mindset kicked in, Sanders kept it vague at first. “When everything changed for me. When the script got flipped on me,” he said.
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Clark tried a few guesses, floating the idea it happened when Sanders entered the NFL, or maybe back when he became a household name at Colorado.
Sanders shot that second one down fast. “Not that. Okay. That was great,” he said, brushing off any suggestion his Colorado run was the source of frustration.
Sanders didn’t name anyone specifically, but he made it clear his frustration isn’t with the criticism itself. Instead, it’s with how some people choose to use their platforms.
“I don’t think there’s anything negative about it, but I just don’t like… how can I say it? I don’t really like when people have platforms and don’t use them for the right reasons. I don’t respect that,” Sanders said. “Things I don’t respect, I don’t give my time to.”
That perspective may serve Sanders well, but it won’t decide Cleveland’s quarterback competition. Todd Monken has yet to announce a Week 1 starter, with Sanders and Deshaun Watson still vying for the job.
NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe reported this week that Monken wants one of the two quarterbacks to seize the job outright. Monken reportedly likes what he’s seen from Sanders lately, particularly his growth running the offense, but he’s not there yet.
“He’s been very impressed with Shedeur Sanders over the past four months and how he’s grown, particularly with his operation,” Wolfe said, relaying Monken’s message to the young quarterback: clean up the huddle operation and speed up the decision-making.
Sanders and Watson are currently splitting first-team reps, so while Sanders may be tuning out the criticism on TV, he can’t tune out the job in front of him. That competition is very real, and it’s coming to a head fast.
This article originally appeared on Pro Football Network.