{"id":247410,"date":"2025-09-19T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=247410"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:25:50","slug":"browns-rivals-floated-as-potential-trade-destination-for-shedeur-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/19\/browns-rivals-floated-as-potential-trade-destination-for-shedeur-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Rivals Floated as Potential Trade Destination for Shedeur Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors of Shedeur Sanders going packing from Berea are not slowing down anytime soon. Joe Flacco is handling the keys to the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/browns\" target=\"_self\"> Cleveland Browns<\/a>&#8216; offense for now, and Dillon Gabriel is next in line if things start falling out too quickly, too soon.<\/p>\n<p>This creates a strong possibility that the Browns&#8217; front office might consider a trade for Sanders down the road if they get an offer they can&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN analyst predicts one coming from their season-opening opponents, the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<h2>Would the Bengals Trade for Shedeur Sanders<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/bengals\/\" target=\"_self\">Bengals<\/a> QB Joe Burrow suffered a\u00a0Grade 3 turf toe injury and significant ligament damage during their \u00a031-27 victory over the Jaguars, which would sideline him for at least three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN sources: Bengals QB Joe Burrow will need toe surgery that will sideline him a minimum of three months,\u201d\u00a0Adam Schefter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1967567284026954065'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Burrow&#8217;s injury update ignited a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/14\/bengals-giants-could-connect-on-blockbuster-jameis-winston-trade\/\" target=\"_self\"> plethora of trade rumors.<\/a> The Bengals are reaching out to several franchises and inquiring about their QBs. It gave the trade talks all the traction it needed.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">\u201cThe Bengals have been calling around to other free-agent quarterbacks since after Joe Burrow\u2019s injury, knowing they will have to add at least one more to their roster,\u201d\u00a0Schefter continued in a follow-up post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bengals have been calling around to other free-agent quarterbacks since after Joe Burrow\u2019s injury, knowing they will have to add at least one more to their roster. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iDPo7uhqIj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/iDPo7uhqIj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1967568906400522604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">There have been several reports going around about the Bengals&#8217; reaching for QBs. According to <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Easton__Butler\/status\/1967629852049281328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Easton Butler<\/a> of Packer Report, one of them is Malik Willis of the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">&#8220;Cincinnati has also inquired about potential trades for QBs, as the free-agent market is thin, with players like Taylor Hienicke and John Wolford among the most accomplished available,&#8221; <a  href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/shedeur-sanders-bengals-trade-joe-burrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Dible<\/a> of Heavy Sports reported.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">After all this, another report of the Bengals extending a call to the Browns, offering a trade for Sanders, should hardly come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">Another reason why it may not come as a surprise would be the rumors of Sanders not even getting reps with the scouting team.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">Although they were <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/13\/browns-qb-coach-sternly-shuts-down-rumors-on-shedeur-sanders-not-earning-reps\/\" target=\"_self\">shut down just as quickly<\/a>, the fans continue to hold onto their grudges of Kevin Stefanski not giving Sanders a fair chance like Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">Main Photo: Peter Casey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the injury of their franchise QB, an ESPN analyst floats the Browns&#8217; rivals as a trade destination for Shedeur Sanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":247431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,36,6431],"tags":[7809,4548,32477],"class_list":["post-247410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-browns","category-nfl-news","category-nfl-teams","tag-cleveland-browns-news","tag-kevin-stefanski","tag-shedeur-sanders"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247436,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247410\/revisions\/247436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}