Shedeur Sanders Media Machine arrived in the NFL with a resounding Thud this weekend.

Sanders’ collapse from potential # 1 total election to 144. Marked an unprecedented moment in the NFL draft of history and shook the nation.

President Donald Trump urged Sanders to be “elected immediately” on Friday just before the second round.

But an NFL team did not choose Sanders until Saturday afternoon, late in the fifth round. Cleveland Browns ended the historic slide late in the fifth round, but at that time the national indignation had run its course.

Viral discourse on the subject varied in subject from religious to racial.

That’s how it all went down:

Tuesday, April 22: The problem is revealed

On Tuesday before the draft, NFL Media released a summary of the 18 best views of this year’s class.

Sanders’ section included testimonies from an anonymous assistant coach who said Sanders was “the worst formal interview I’ve ever been II my life. He’s so right. He takes unnecessary sacks. He never plays on time. He has terrible body language. He accuses teammates … but the biggest thing he’s not that good.”

An anonymous long -standing director added, “It didn’t go well in our interview. He wants to dictate what he wants to do and what’s best for him. He makes you feel small.”

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The quotes became viral and fed into earlier rumors that Sanders had slipped significantly down to draft boards.

But now the notion that he could fall out of the first round had been widely recognized. In the end, most betting platforms Sanders had even odds of being a first round.

Wednesday 23 April: Insider suggests potential drop in the first round

The night before round one, CBS Sports’ Jonathan Jones said on his network air, “I think there’s a very good chance that [Shedeur Sanders] is not selected on Thursday night. “

Draft Day Morning: Stephen A. Smith “Sounds Alarm” at the first round drop as shedur is preparing for “no matter what”

Stephen A. Smith recognized the possibility of Sanders fell from the first round during the draft of the morning episode of ESPN’s “First Take” and called the performance “Shaking.”

“I try to find out is what the hell is the precipitated drop about?” Smith said on ESPN’s “First Take” Thursday.

“We know this Brother can play. We know about wheher he doesn’t have the greatest engine or the greatest arm. The accuracy is there. The poise is there. The pedigree is there. We see all of these things along with his skill set and what he’s ables This guy is going to be a second-round pick.

Smith sent a warning to the mainstream sports audience that morning about potential indignation that could emerge if all 32 teams were to pass shedsurers that night.

Later in the afternoon, Sanders wrote on X, “I’m built for what today had to bring.”

Draft evening, 7 p.m. 21.08 EST: SAINTS passes Sheeteur when the family gets worried

Sanders was originally projected as a candidate for each of the top three teams (Titans, Browns and Saints) early in the draft process, with Raiders of six and the saints of 11 as candidates if Sanders should fall out of the top three.

But at nine at the hour of draft evening, all these options had officially passed him after the saints took off the tackle tackle Kelvin Bank’s Jr., out of Texas.

The nation saw ESPN and NFL Network released shots from the inside of Sanders Family House, showing a whole shelf covered with all 32 NFL hoods so he could pull one out and carry it to his big moment.

At one point during the first round, his second brother, NFL Safety Prospect Shilo Sanders, “something going on” insisted with the fact that Shedeur was not elected.

Draft evening, 7 p.m. 23

Steelers became the team that Sanders was most attached to the end of the draft of the process. Some experts, including the NFL Networks Daniel Jeremiah, thought that Pittsburgh could be Sanders’ floor in the first round at 21.

But Pittsburgh went on with Sanders and took the defensive tackle Derrick Harmon out of Oregon.

This movement left quarterback without any clear path to be chosen in the first round as the reality of falling until the next day came into focus for him and his family.

Just four elections later, Giants traded with the Texans to get it 25. Choices for a quarterback but it wasn’t Sanders. Giants took Jaxson Dart, out of Ole Miss, who had been expected to go much later than Sanders in the first draft boards.

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And it looked when the night was later, the famous ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. Gradually and noticeably more irritated as Sanders was not selected. Spotting kiper’s progressive irritation.

Kiper’s annoyance and love for Sanders became one of the most mocking discussed topics on social media throughout the draft and were even pointed out by the social media account of the NBC-owned Pro Football Talk.

Draft evening, 7 p.m. 23.43 EST: Sanders officially falls out of the first round, nfl -fans buzz with debate

It became official after Chiefs used the 32nd and last choice of offensive Josh Simmons out of Ohio State; Sanders wouldn’t be a first round pick.

The 23-year-old quarterback undertook to give a speech on the camera after that to acknowledge that it was not what he or his family had expected.

“We didn’t all expect this,” Sanders said, but expressed confidence that he would go on day 2.

Day 2, Morning after: The conversation becomes racial

The morning after Sanders fell past the first round marked the start of a national occupation over the question of why.

The topic led all the mainstream sports shows across the country, and the conversation began to branch out of just football.

Shedeur Sanders’ historic NFL draft of drama ignited heated racial debates

USA Today published a pillar entitled “Shedeur Sanders’ dramatic NFL Draft Slide seems deeper than pure football,” who claimed that Quarterback’s fall from the first round “feels weird.”

Then, former Democratic Congress Member Jamaal Bowman reinforced the argument that Sanders had fallen into the draft due to racial reasons, sent a 10-minute video rant and said, “America continues to fear strong black men.” Bowman’s video was later noticed to point out how many black quarterbacks have been taken # 1 in recent years, including this year with Cam Ward.

Meanwhile, Shedeur’s father and college trainer Deion Sanders broke his silence over the shock of his son, who slipped out of the third round in a post on X.

Day 2, 16:52 EST: Trump calls “stupid” NFL owners to pass on sceedeur

President Trump expanded the extent of controversy with a simple social media post on Friday afternoon.

Hours before the start of the second round, Trump weighed in on Sanders’ Dias, supported Quarterback and called for him to be selected “immediately.”

“What’s wrong with NFL owners, are the stupid? Deion Sanders was a fantastic college football player and was even bigger in the NFL. Good luck, and says your wonderful father! “Trump wrote about truth social.

Some in Sanders’ family, including his brother Deion Jr., shared the president’s message as it pressed the whole situation into the political sphere.

Day 2, 7 p.m.

With Ward and Darts taken, the expectation that Sanders would be the third quarterback was selected and probably go high in the second round. No other available prospects at that time were realistically projected in front of Sanders.

But then the saints made a very narrative decision early in the second round with the 40s. Election that needed a quarterback, they took Tyler Shough, out of Louisville.

The 25-year-old Shough was nowhere near Sanders in the early scout reports.

The football world began to realize that they were seeing something unprecedented.

Day 2, 21:30 EST: Shedeur is suffering from a ‘cruel’ joke after falling past the second round

The second round came and went without Sanders chosen, so he waited in the third. The family’s draft experience was broadcast on Twitch, and at one point Sanders was seen responding to a phone call, which he assumed was from a general manager who made the decision to prepare him.

Quarterback had a big smile on his face as he answered and greeted the one who rings, with friends and family that penetrated him.

“I’m good, waiting for you,” he said.

But the imposter on the other hand told the eager young athlete that he would “have to wait a little longer” when Sanders’ smile quickly faded.

The caller tried to emulate Saint’s General Manager Mickey Loomis, a video sent by Deion Jr., later showed.

The call to the left Schede and the whole family confused.

“No one has this number but trains, strictly for that reason. Why get crazy? They want you to have a certain type of reaction to it,” he told his brother on the video. “They want you to feel bad. But I’m not trippin ‘.”

Day 2, 7 p.m. 23:20 EST: Round 3 ends with another two quarterbacks taken as shedurs slide becomes “unprecedented”

When the third round ended on Friday night, Espns called Adam Schafter Sanders’ draft of Dias “unprecedented.”

Superstar -quarterback Patrick Mahomes even seemed to weigh the controversy with a simple tweet late Friday night.

The nation simply could not believe that Sander’s at the earliest would be the sixth quarterback taken in the draft after Jalen Milroe out of Alabama went to Seahawks at 92 and Dillon Gabriel went to Browns at 94.

Kiper said about the development. “I think it’s disgusting. I don’t understand what the heck is going on with this,” Kiper said at ESPN.

Meanwhile, Stephen A. Smith had already begun to compare the situation with Colin Kaepernick, who was out of the NFL since 2016 after his notorious knees during the national anthem.

Day 3, morning: a nation on edge, a family easy

The Sanders family never succumbed to the negativity of the public throughout the historic slide and cruel prank.

Shedeur even thanked God several times despite everything that was going on after falling past the third round.

Deion Jr. Made five X-positions with reference to Bible verses dating back to Thursday, and often shared them again as his brother fell into the draft.

But outside the Sanders family’s home, the rest of the country ripped apart over Sanders’ slides.

Espns Booger McFarland had already succumbed to the argument that “it must be about more than football,” while the NFL Networks Joel Klatt pointed his finger to the stories built on Sanders during the pre-offering process.

“Shedeur represents everything I don’t like about the NFL draft, and that’s just one thing: These are tales. These are tales that are built, lazy and honest, garbage,” Klatt said.

And the debate raged far beyond sports.

BartSool -founder Dave Portnoy reinforced online racial arguments over Sanders’ slides by responding to Smith’s Kaepernick -Compound on X.

ESPN Radio host Peter Rosenberg released a long-standing thread on X and argued that race had been a factor in Sanders’ draft slide.

Conservative filmmaker Matt Walsh even got into the discussion, examined Sanders and agreed with his slide.

Day 3, 14:15 EST: Slide ends but the debate has only begun

Sanders was finally taken with the 144th election on Saturday afternoon when Browns ended the object glass.

Sanders’ family celebrated the election with the same degree of enthusiasm if it happened in the first round that streamed a violent group sequence on Twitch when the election was announced.

However, Kiper, Smith and countless other prominent mainstream sports media spent plenty of time after this continued to discuss the slip.

Race conversations about the situation have not died across social media.

The cloud Sanders era is sure to be filled with national conversation in the coming years.