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Shedeur Sanders addresses his multiple speeding tickets: 'I learned not to drive fast'

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Browns QB Shedeur Sanders
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Shedeur Sanders was cited for speeding in June, his second such traffic stop he had last month, when he was pulled over for driving over 100 mph just past midnight in Strongsville, Ohio. That has since led to some conversations between him and those with the Cleveland Browns.

At training camp on Friday, Sanders addressed the discussions he has had with Browns GM Andrew Berry about his speeding. He said he has learned about those mistakes and hopes others will too, following his two incidents.

“Yeah, I definitely learned not to drive fast at all. So, I really, I really don’t even drive like that much anymore, that much anymore,” said Sanders. “But, I really don’t drive fast at all. So, I definitely follow the rules and I hope everybody learned from my situation, you know, to not drive fast at all.”

This comes a day after Berry had to address the speeding incidents with the media as well. He kept it simple in noting that it was both dumb and reckless, for himself and to others, for Sanders to be doing.

“Uh, not smart. Just, just not smart. And it’s something that we’ve addressed with him,” Berry said. “You know, he understands the implications, he understands the consequences. And I think the thing is, like, it’s not just about yourself, right. It’s not just about, you know, having a joy ride. It’s not just about, you know, driving a car really fast. But it’s about the fact that you can endanger other people. It’s about the fact that if a deer or someone, you know, cuts out in front of you, your reaction time? It’s just dangerous and it’s not something that we want our guys to be doing. It’s not something that they should be doing. And, the number one reason is because we don’t want some type of catastrophic accident, right…We don’t want that occurring, you know, with anyone in our organization.”

Sanders did this twice in June since moving to Ohio. The first was on June 5th when he was cited for driving 91 mph in a 65 mph zone in Brunswick Hills, before the second, less than two weeks later on June 17th for driving 101 mph in a 60 mph zone.

This is already not a good look to be driving as unsafely as this. It is also the wrong kind of attention on Sanders coming out of his slide in the 2025 NFL Draft. There were obviously some concerns for him to fall from being an expected first-round pick on night one to a fifth-round pick on day three. That said, Sanders is still going to have a chance to play, even maybe start at some point, as a rookie this season for Cleveland – but with moments like these likely not helping his case on the depth chart.

This lesson was hopefully learned the safe way, with Sanders having dealt with law enforcement twice and now the organization. Now, the attention needs to turn to football for him with practice opening today through the next weeks for Cleveland.