Inside linebackers Trevin Wallace and Christian Rozeboom will benefit from Carolina's upgrades on the defensive line. Wallace, for example, was able to collect a run stop in the first quarter when the interior front swallowed up double teams to help free the B-gap.

For Shedeur Sanders, who famously fell from a projected top-five pick all the way to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, he made the most of his NFL debut and may have just crashed the party in the Cleveland Browns crowded quarterback room.

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders put together an electric preseason debut for the Cleveland Browns. In their first preseason game against the Carolina Panthers, Sanders stepped in as the starter due to injuries to both Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel. And he did not disappoint.