Browns to showcase Watson, Sanders in preseason QB audition

In Cleveland, a franchise stands at a crossroads familiar to many in professional sport: the tension between loyalty to a costly investment and the emergence of something new. Deshaun Watson, twice undone by injury over nearly two years of absence, returns to the field this weekend against the Bears, while Shedeur Sanders — the rookie who held the line when no one else could — awaits his own audition against the Bills the following week. New head coach Todd Monken inherits not just a quarterback competition but a philosophical question about how an organization reckons with the past while reac