Browns

• Browns HC Todd Monken said QB Shedeur Sanders will “go today with the 1s unless on the way out I change my mind.” (Zac Jackson)
• Monken said the competition will remain open as long as they are sharing reps. He hasn’t decided who will start the first preseason game, but mentioned each will get a start. (Jackson)

Ravens

• Ravens HC Jesse Minter said that WR Zay Flowers is dealing with a quad contusion after limping off the field and is currently considered day-to-day. (Schefter)
• The Ravens signed Flowers to a four-year, $140 million contract extension on August 7, with $108 million guaranteed, including $78.03 million in new money guarantees and $54 million fully guaranteed at signing through a $24.855 million signing bonus, his 2026 and 2027 salaries, and a $26.74 million 2027 option bonus.
• Flowers’ $26.5 million 2028 salary becomes fully guaranteed if he is on the roster on the 5th day of the 2027 league year, while his $27.5 million 2029 salary becomes fully guaranteed if he remains on the roster through the 5th day of the 2028 league year.
• The contract also includes $2 million roster bonuses if Flowers is on the roster on the 5th day of the 2030 and 2031 league years, while the extension increases his 2026 cap charge by $3.45 million and reduces his 2027 cap charge by $15.7 million. (OTC)

Steelers

Even though he has admitted that the 2026 season will definitely be his last, Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers credited HC Mike Tomlin for re-igniting his interest in the game.

“I do love it, yeah,” Rodgers said in an interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I’m also 42. I’ve played 22 years. I played three in college. I’ve never had a fall to myself. I want to start a family with my wife, you know? I think you just have to know when it’s time. And, you know, there’s been times in the last three offseasons where I felt like maybe it is time. But doors open, and I just tried to listen to the signs. I might have been listening to the wrong signs by going to New York, but it was a good learning experience, you know, and I learned a lot during that process, and I am thankful for that time there. And I’m thankful for last year with Coach Tomlin, because he helped me get that love back, that deep love back for the game. That, you know, tearing my Achilles and going through a year of rehab, and just never feeling like myself, it just kind of beats you up a little bit, and I didn’t want that to be my ending in the game that I love so much, and Mike and being around the guys, got me that love back, and I was content in walking away. And then they hired Mike McCarthy, and I was like, ‘Okay, maybe we need a full circle here, me and Mike need a full circle here.”