However, on ESPN's top-100 list, only three of those four made the group. Stafford finished No. 72, Verse finished No. 55 and Nacua earned No. 36. ESPN asked 10 different analysts and insiders to rank their 100 players and then built a composite list based on that survey.

Unfortunately, an oblique strain kept Sanders out of the preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and then came Saturday’s very bad day against the Los Angeles Rams, where Sanders finished three-of-six 14 yards, took five sacks, and looked like anything but a quarterback ready to start a regular-season game.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders said he expected to make the final 53-man roster despite struggling in the final preseason game of the year.