Shedeur Sanders seemed like one of the best college football players coming into this year’s NFL draft. Sanders played at Colorado and ended his college career strong. He had a completion percentage of 74% and threw for 4,134 yards and 37 touchdowns, which are impressive stats for a player at his level, so impressive that Colorado decided to retire his number.
Shedeur Sanders’s fans thought he was a definite first-round draft pick. However, that was not the case. 143 players were selected before Sanders. Five rounds passed and five quarterbacks were picked before he was selected by the Cleveland Browns.
NFL fans were so confused about why no one wanted to pick Sanders. Seven teams needed to select a quarterback for their franchise, and no one chose Shedeur Sanders to be that guy.
That wasn’t the only bad thing that happened to Sanders. During the second round of the draft, he received a phone call from Jeff Ulbrich’s, the defensive coach for the Atlanta Falcons, son, who impersonated the Saints’ GM and said they were going to pick him with their next draft pick.
Once the pick passed, Shedeur realized he had been pranked. In my opinion, this should never have happened to Shedeur and his family. He was by far one of the top quarterback prospects in the draft, and there is no way he should have fallen into the fifth round of the draft, but maybe there were reasons.
It was said by an anonymous NFL coach, “the worst formal interview I’ve ever been in in my life”. I believe that even though Shedeur should’ve been picked higher in the draft, coaches did have their reasons not to pick him. Some coaches said he “takes unnecessary sacks”, “never shows up on time,” and “blames teammates”. The worst thing a quarterback can do is blame his teammates. Many coaches were worried about how he feels entitled to be a starter on any team and how they would be affected by his father, Deion Sanders, if they drafted him.
In the end, he was still one of the more talented players in the draft, and I believe that he should’ve been picked earlier in the draft, but ultimately his attitude, entitlement, with the combination of his father’s attitude all affected him.