Posted on 04/30/2025 2:08:58 AM PDT by dennisw
Who’s to blame for Shedeur Sanders’ plummet to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft?
Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter thinks it’s simple: Sanders has no one to blame but himself.
“You’re going for a job interview,” Carter said about the pre-draft process during an episode of the “Fully Loaded” podcast released Monday. “So, for his job interview, he was so concerned about what his outfit was, his necklace was over a hundred grand. Like, he hadn’t even convinced people that you’re the face of our franchise.
Cris Carter had a 16-year, Hall of Fame NFL career.
“Matter of fact, he had convinced people that they were better off going in a different direction, even with people who had lesser talent. That’s the rub he put onto people.”
If Sanders had gone in the top three like he and many around him expected, he would have been in line to make far more money than he’ll now make after being selected by the Browns in the fifth round.
“He threw away at least 30 to 50 million dollars,” Carter said.
Carter also mentioned how the young quarterback’s father, Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, could have been part of the problem, too.
Deion went as far as to say a year ago that Shedeur might refuse to play for a franchise that the family saw as undesirable.
“Shedeur and his family, they overplayed their hand,” Carter said. “Them thinking that he was in the same evaluation mode as Eli Manning, they didn’t play that right. Them trying to narrow the teams that he was going to go to, that didn’t do right.”
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Glad somebody said it..............
Sanders picked #144
Tom Brady picked #199
Meh 🫤 watching for Cam Ward contract to further weigh in
His father has no business sense if he thought that telling his son to refuse to play was a wise decision.
Do what the other football player did recently. Take a one year and perform at his best and then throw himself on the open agency for a multi-year contract. I thought that was the most smart decision a player could make.
Everyone remembers QB Johnny Football (Manziel) went to Cleveland and flamed out...........
After all the BS and fake hype he ends up with the Browns. Too funny.
He suffered from a lack of discipline. He liked the party scene too much.
You left out Mr. Irrelevant, Brock Purdy..................
NBC has a peacock 🦚.
The Browns now gave bling-turkey, a dodo like bird that struts and fans it’s tail, showing its ass.
The bling-turkey demonstrates so many off color shades and traits, that the male is always alone, separated by its own attraction to shinny objects and it frequently let’s it’s moth overload it’s a$$, not to confused with the Neon AFK-Flack Duck, which is a wise-quacker.
Maybe, just maybe, this is actually a good thing. Now he knows he isn`t “da Man” and nobody is going to treat him like the next big thing. He’ll (hopefully) understand that he has to give it his all. At the same time he will be able to learn behind the starting QB.He won`t be expected to be the saviour of a failing franchise in his first year.
Who?
49ers QB
Very funny J lol
Unloads? Not at all. Carter gave a logical and reasonable assessment.
Because he was “Johnny Football”...he beat himself.
“These days, Manziel spends a lot of time with his family, goes golfing, and watches football on the weekends rather than playing it. He’s also an uncle now, spending as much time as possible with his two nieces.
Given everything that he’s been through and the fact that he entered the limelight at such a young age, it’s easy to forget that Manziel is still just 31 years old and has the rest of his life ahead of him. It certainly sounds like his darkest days are behind him and he’s on the right path.”
Hope thats true...
It was really the owners of the teams that were QB hunting.
Sanders is a PR nightmare for them. If the team doesn’t do well and he’s sitting on the bench, the fan base will call them out. If the team doesn’t do well and he’s starting, the fan base will argue he needs more material around him.
Sanders really isn’t a bad guy. He’s brash, but there are much worse out there.
Quinn Ewers lost even more. He should have stayed in college.
Jaxson Dart might be the best QB in the lot anyway. I can’t see Cam doing much at Tenn.
The draft has been made a spectacle to give the “fans” something to sit and watch on TV anyway.
He’s got a podcast, where he interviews athletes and some sort of bar/nightclub.
NFL players do not “take a one year” when drafted. They get a four-year contract. If they are taken in the first round, there is a fifth-year option. UDFA’s (Undrafted Free Agents) get 3-year contracts. Of course those years are at the discretion of the team, not the player. If the player is not good, the team can cut them. Getting cut on purpose is not a path to wealth, and there is no guarantee that your preferred destination would sign you anyways. If you or your agent talked to ownership while under contract with another team, that is collusion and the team could lose future draft choices.
The Steelers could have had the speedy Sanders.
Instead they picked a fat slow and pudgy quarterback.
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