Ex-NFL star praises Shedeur Sanders for 'mental toughness' to bounce back from poor debut to beat Raiders

Shedeur Sanders will receive his second career NFL start later this week when the Cleveland Browns take on the San Francisco ers in Week Sanders helped the Browns to a - preeminence over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday Though he didn t dazzle in his first start Sanders did enough to get the win and threw his first touchdown pass in the process CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMTrent Green a Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowler in his NFL career touted Sanders efforts against the Raiders after he only made four completions when he came in for an injured Dillon Gabriel in Week against the Baltimore Ravens The fact that he was able to come back off of that performance he had last week where he was -of- it was a bad challenge Green recounted Fox News Digital But you don t get a lot of reps You re a young quarterback you get thrown into a situation like that I love the way that he responded You have to have mental toughness to be able to do that You re in a tough conditions You re trying to get a win There s a lot of pressure that comes from the name on the back of your jersey and the fact that there s so much attention around him as a participant he was able to handle all that and got the win I m looking forward to talking to him this week research more tape on him and learn more about him And he s got a San Francisco association that s coming in there EX-NFL STAR TALKS APPETITE FOR ASSOCIATION IN ST LOUIS AS MISSOURI GETS READY FOR SPORTS BETTINGGreen spoke to Fox News Digital days before he's set to help launch Caesars Sportsbooks in Missouri Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski stressed the need for continued improvement when he spoke to reporters on Monday First start for any young quarterback you re perpetually going to make sure the operation is how you want it and I thought by and large was good Stefanski revealed There s things that we can clean up and obviously that goes on all of us Are there things that he can do better Absolutely We ve already talked about that with him He has the mentality that he will make the adjustments to the speed of the contest make the adjustments to what people are giving us to make those improvements The Associated Press contributed to this record Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter