After Shedsur Sanders fell out of the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday, President Donald Trump threw the situation into the political area on Friday afternoon.

Trump’s truth’s social posts calling NFL owners, “stupid” not to work out Sanders and urge Quarterback to “pick immediately” became one of the most unexpected moments in an unprecedented draft slide.

Sanders was ultimately not elected “immediately” as Trump ordered when the quarter slipped out of the second and third rounds later on Friday nights. Sanders did not end up being taken before the fifth round Saturday, with the 144th election of Cleveland Browns.

Still, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt took the freedom to credit Trump’s submissions for Sanders, who was elected at all.

“All I want to say is that the president issued a statement, and a few rounds later he was drafted. So I think the facts speak for themselves now,” Leavitt told journalists Monday.

However, the famous NFL agent Leigh Steinberg is not so quick to credit Trump to help Sander be taken.

“I want to be in a very divided country where there are extreme opinions on both sides of the spectrum, as A-politically as possible,” Steinberg told Pakinomist Digital about what his reaction would be if Trump called for one of his clients to be prepared.

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Steinberg, who has represented a record-breaking eight players taken with the first overall election of the NFL draft, does not believe that Trump’s post had a major impact on the result of Sanders’ draft.

“I don’t think so because teams are closely focused in their war spaces across the country and they know who they want, and I don’t see a team that downgrades him because of the involvement of a political figure,” Steinberg said.

Still, Steinberg believes that Trumps weighs to an increased extent of the situation in terms of advertising.

“It certainly did it because it involved the whole segment of the public that follows the president, but may not otherwise have aware of what was going on,” Steinberg said.

In addition, with extra attention, there may be an unexpected benefit to Sanders, even if it did not help his draft warehouse.

Steinberg said he believes that Trump’s praise for quarterback will eventually improve Sanders’ reputation value and his marketability as an NFL Pro in the future, now that he finally has a team.

Sanders was once expected to fight for the top overall choice in the draft and potentially presumed as a team’s starts immediately.

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However, reports of Sanders who interviewed poorly with teams and reputation came in character problems, during the months and weeks that led to the draft, and he eventually suffered an unprecedented slide for the fifth round.

Steinberg himself was surprised when he expected Sanders to be picked in the second round. The agent, who has been representing athletes for more than 50 years, says that Sanders’ draft slide was the most surprising draft slide that he has ever seen.

“It is played by a national audience and it distorts time because it seems to be endless and the player is rejected and rejected and rejected, and it is like a death with a thousand cuts,” Steinberg said. “This is such a precipitated fall that I have seen in my 51 years.”

As a veteran agent with a history of getting quarterbacks drafted high, Steinberg believes there are certain things that Sanders could have done to help his draft warehouse in 2025.

First, Steinberg says Quarterback could have benefited from having his own agent when Sanders chose to represent himself with his father and former college coach Deion Sanders.

If the family had instead chosen to go with an agent, Steinberg expects them to run an interview simulation with an NFL General Manager before the NFL combine, as Steinberg did with many of his clients in the past.

“We bring a general manager who prepares a player for these one-on-one-visit on the combine,” Steinberg said.

“The players are preparing for the questions to be asked, and the player promotes the right attitude, which is that they have to be confident, but not arrogant.”

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Colorado Buffaloes Quarterback Shhedeur Sanders, #2, talking to ESPN after the University of Colorado NFL Showcase at CU indoor practice facility on April 4, 2025. (Michael Ciaglo-Misted Pictures)

Steinberg also says he would tell a quarterback client to scale back on social media activity and try to get advertising if he felt it would have become too much if he had such a client.

“Any feeling that it would be a circus -like atmosphere for the team that drafted him would not be something they wanted for their culture,” Steinberg said.

“Deion Sanders is great, but if the way they used on social media raised concern that this would not be a low -key team player, humble player coming into a team, it could have affected someone.”

Still, Steinberg believes that Sanders is still equipped to have a successful NFL career, and believes he can fight for the team’s starting quarterback position as soon as his rookie year.