NFL Draft: Shedeur Sanders’ Frefall has Sports World in shock

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When Quarterback prospectus, as Shedeur Sanders fell out of the first round of the 2025 NFL draft, there were some who could not believe that he had not been chosen by an organization, even if it was not considered a total shock.

But with Friday night watching three quarterbacks more than named Sanders get out of the draft of the board, the reaction was pure shock.

Sanders, Colorado Buffaloes Quarterback, a Heisman Trophy finalist this former college season, remains available on the way into the third and final day of the NFL Draft. There have been 102 prospects taken by the board, and with Round 4, beginning at noon in Green Bay, everyone is wondering, which NFL team will finally pull on the trigger at Sanders.

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Colorado Quarterback Shedeur Sanders looks at an exercise at the NFL Football Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Surprise and shock may not even be the words to describe in the fall down into the draft of the board, without a doubt being the greatest we have seen in recent memory for someone that many considered as at least in a choice of day 2.

Why does this happen to Sanders? It is the question of everyone’s mind, including ESPNS Booger McFarland, who believes the answer is outside the tape.

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“It has to be more than football,” he said during the NFL draft that was sent on the network. “He is the best pure passerby you can draft. When you start to see development projects like Jalen Milroe and Dillon Gabriel – and nothing against these guys, but they are not almost the player who Sanders Sanders is. When they go ahead of him, the only thing you can say is more than football.”

Tyler Shough (New Orleans Saints), Milroe (Seattle Seahawks) and Gabriel (Cleveland Browns) were all elected Friday night in respective order. Gabriel in particular was the icing on the cake for those who were confused that Sanders had not gone away from the board as some experts did not have him on their top five quarterback rankings on the way into the draft.

Mel Kiper Jr., the long-time NFL draft analyst with ESPN, has been firmly at Sanders’ talent and ranked him the highest classified view of his great board. He was a vocals about Sanders who made it out of the first round on Thursday night, but he was horrified to see what happened the next day.

“I think it’s disgusting,” he said under a long rant, after day 2 came and went. “I don’t understand what the heck is going on with this … Someone will have to explain that one to me.”

Joel Klatt, who called several Buffaloes games this former college season for Fox Sports, has seen what Sanders can do for a football program in person.

Colorado Quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) throws a care against Central Florida during the first half of a NCAA College -Football match, Saturday 28 September 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

During the NFL Network’s broadcast, Klatte pointed his finger to the tales that were built on Sanders during the prior broadcasting process with regard to a reason he is slipping.

“Shedeur represents everything I don’t like about the NFL draft, and that’s only one thing: These are stories. These are stories that are built, lazy and honest, garbage. When you come out as an anonymous source about some meeting you had and you don’t think a child measured up to what you wanted him to be when he went into your room, I think it is.

“Shedeur Sanders will be a good quarterback in the National Football League, and I think he will go to do something head coach and a fanbase very happy because he has already done it in his career in what I think is a very difficult ramp light for his father at the University of Colorado and a program that was nothing before he came there for two decades.”

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At the same time, Klatt also believes that this is time for Sanders to reflect because the analyst feels that it is not the tape that causes this free fall.

“His game on the field suggests that he should have already been chosen,” Klatt explained. “There were some quarterbacks, their games on the field probably don’t justify a choice over his game on the field.

“The reason he is not drawn at this time is because of the person sitting with these teams and not, for whatever reason, Jell with them.”

It’s not just the analysts who emit about Sanders’ draft situation – even President Donald Trump jumped into the mixture to say how crazy it was.

“What’s wrong with NFL owners, are the stupid? Deion Sanders was a good college football player and was even bigger in the NFL.

Espn -host Stephen A. Smith called it “a damn shame.” Denver Bronco’s main coach Sean Payton, who already has a young quarterback after taking Bo Nix in the first round last year, admitted his surprise and even Buffaloes football account on X released 10 minutes value of Sanders highlights, just to remind everyone of how good he can be on Gridiron.

These reactions are just the tip of the iceberg as the football world continues to get confused about Sanders available on the way into the fourth round Saturday.

Colorado Quarterback Shhedeur Sanders speaks during a press conference at the NFL Football Scouting Combine Friday, February 28, 2025 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

After the last election was made in Round 3, Sanders, surrounded by friends and family at home, including his father and Colorado coach Deion Sanders, at X.

“Thank you God for everything,” he wrote.

Of the teams that are still in search of a potential new quarterback on the depth card, Pittsburgh Steelers, which is believed to be an option in Round 1 and 3, remains a Frontrunner, just as Las Vegas Raiders do.

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