Shedeur Sanders apparently isn’t the one one that “torpedoed” his NFL draft possibilities.
When discussing the previous Colorado quarterback’s gorgeous slide over the weekend to the fifth spherical within the 2025 NFL Draft, with the Browns grabbing him at No. 144 total, Boomer Esiason claimed Monday the 23-year-old Sanders wasn’t on draft boards on the discretion of unnamed possession.
“When you listen to this kid talk, right prior or at the combine, about how if you want a new culture in your locker room, I’m the guy to do that, I can turn it around, he’s very high on himself, and I think he’s very off-putting to many, many coaches and general managers in the league,” Esiason mentioned Monday on WFAN’s “Boomer & Gio.”
“I’m telling you right now, and I know this after talking to three different personnel people in the NFL this weekend, they didn’t even have him on their board. They took him off, and they took him off because the owner said, ‘Take him off, I don’t want that guy. I don’t want this … entitled person on our team,’ and I don’t blame them.”
Within the months main as much as the draft, Sanders stirred buzz over feedback made on the NFL Scouting Mix in February, when rumors percolated concerning the QB’s alleged “unprofessional” habits.
“We went from Jackson State to Colorado and changed two programs back-to-back,” Sanders mentioned on the mix. “You don’t think I could come to an NFL franchise and change a program again? It’s history. It’s always going to repeat itself.”
Sanders, as soon as projected to go within the early rounds of this yr’s draft, needed to wait till the third and last day to obtain that life-altering name from the Browns, who already landed Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel within the third spherical Friday night time.
Past the quarterback “just torpedo[ing] himself” the place the pre-draft course of is worried, Esiason added Monday the quarterback’s father, Corridor of Famer Deion Sanders, “didn’t help” issues, significantly when he joked concerning the household pulling an “Eli,” a nod to Eli Manning forcing a draft-day commerce in 2004 from the Chargers to the Giants.
It was a rollercoaster draft expertise for Sanders’ household because the quarterback fell sufferer to a prank caller, who posed as a consultant of an NFL group.
Jax Ulbrich, the 21-year-old son of Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, was concerned and has since issued an apology.
Solely two quarterbacks have been taken within the first spherical of this yr’s draft, with Cam Ward going No. 1 total to the Titans and Jaxson Dart being chosen at No. 25 by the Giants, whom Sanders labored out for.
Sanders was additionally linked to the Steelers and Saints, each of whom drafted quarterbacks.
He and Gabriel be part of a crowded quarterback room that features Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Deshaun Watson.
Sanders’ brother, security Shilo Sanders, went undrafted and later signed with the Buccaneers.
