Shedeur Sanders apparently isn’t the one one who “torpedoed” his NFL draft possibilities.
When discussing the previous Colorado quarterback’s beautiful slide over the weekend to the fifth spherical within the 2025 NFL Draft, with the Browns grabbing him at No. 144 general, Boomer Esiason claimed Monday the 23-year-old Sanders wasn’t on draft boards on the discretion of unnamed possession.
“Whenever you take heed to this child speak, proper prior or on the mix, about how in order for you a brand new tradition in your locker room, I’m the man to do this, I can flip it round, he’s very excessive on himself, and I feel he’s very off-putting to many, many coaches and basic managers within the league,” Esiason stated Monday on WFAN’s “Boomer & Gio.”
“I’m telling you proper now, and I do know this after speaking to a few completely different personnel folks within the NFL this weekend, they didn’t even have him on their board. They took him off, and so they took him off as a result of the proprietor stated, ‘Take him off, I don’t need that man. I don’t need this … entitled particular person on our group,’ 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 in regards to the QB’s alleged “unprofessional” conduct.
“We went from Jackson State to Colorado and altered two packages back-to-back,” Sanders stated on the mix. “You don’t suppose I might come to an NFL franchise and alter a program once more? It’s historical past. It’s at all times going to repeat itself.”
Sanders, as soon as projected to go within the early rounds of this 12 months’s draft, needed to wait till the third and closing day to obtain that life-altering name from the Browns, who already landed Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel within the third spherical Friday evening.
Past the quarterback “simply 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 assist” issues, significantly when he joked in regards to 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 had been taken within the first spherical of this 12 months’s draft, with Cam Ward going No. 1 general 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.
