Taylen Green Addresses Shedeur Sanders Relationship After Being Drafted by Browns

The Cleveland Browns added yet another player to their quarterback room Saturday when they selected Arkansas' Taylen Green in the sixth round of the 2026 NFL draft.

That means Green could find himself competing with Shedeur Sanders for a starting role, and he told reporters Saturday he attended camps with the Colorado product and was impressed with the ability but does not yet have a personal relationship.

"I know of him. I don't have a personal relationship with him," Green told reporters. "He played high school in Texas, so we went to similar camps, the UA All-American camps. But what he did at Colorado and what he did last year was really good. I'm just really excited to work with him and to pick things up from everybody in the quarterback room."

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At this point, Sanders has been participating in voluntary OTAs alongside Dillion Gabriel and Deshaun Watson even though he downplayed the competition aspects of the practices.

"I think I don't try to compare anything," Sanders said. "I don't try to live in no comparison world. I try to forget the negatives, take the good things, and just move forward. So respectfully, I just don't want to talk about last year or anything, because it doesn't help us move forward."

Cleveland selected Sanders with a fifth-round pick in last year's draft, and he eventually took over the starting job as a rookie.

In seven starts and eight games, he finished with a 3-4 record while completing 56.6 percent of his passes for 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions. While he flashed his potential and even made the Pro Bowl as a replacement pick, he also finished with an 18.9 QBR and was sacked 23 times.

New head coach Todd Monken told reporters before the draft he did not have an established depth chart in the quarterback race and added, "there's enough there of all three."

Green now figures to be another factor in the quarterback race after throwing for 2,714 yards, 19 touchdowns and 11 interceptions and adding 777 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground as a runner in his final season at Arkansas.

B/R's NFL Scouting Department ranked him as the sixth-best quarterback in the draft and the one with the best mobility in its final big board of prospects while saying he had "shades of Terrelle Pryor" as a pro comparison in its scouting report.

It also gave the Browns an overall "A" grade for its draft effort and pointed out Green "will add a new wrinkle to the QB competition."

That mobility should help him in the battle for playing time, but it is already a crowded quarterback room in Cleveland.