We can all breath again.
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For a moment there, things were getting nervy. Coming into this weekend's draft, it didn't feel like there was any real chance that Shedeur Sanders was going to end up on the Cowboys. He was going to go somewhere late in the first round, maybe early in the second. Then the first round came and went. Same with the second round. And then the third and fourth.
All of a sudden, things were getting weird. Midway through Saturday afternoon, no one could quite figure out what was going to happen with Sanders, which any Cowboys fan will tell you is a terrible place to be. Some teams merely adopted Big Name chaos – the Cowboys were born in it, molded by it. The longer that Sanders stayed on the board, the more it felt terrifyingly possible that Jerry was going to get nuts. The anxiety was creeping in.
Then, thankfully, the Browns did what the Browns do best: they made a super weird QB decision.
The Browns saved the Cowboys from doing the most Cowboys thing possible
There's some irony behind the fact that, after all this, Sanders still ended up on the team that everyone expected him to. And while I'm sure there's some great argument to be made about Sanders, the Browns, and the draft process in general, all I care about are these deep sighs of relief; Sanders isn't a Cowboy. I hope he has a long, successful career on the Lake Erie lakefront, but the thought of a backup QB being the most high-profile player on the Cowboys roster was simply too realistic to ignore. It's a specific neurosis that Cowboys fans know well.
Now we can just get back to focusing on depth lineman and special teams star, as Day 3 always intended. That is, after my blood pressure returns to normal levels.