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Cris Carter unloads on Shedeur Sanders for ‘$50 million’ NFL draft mistake
NY Post ^ | April 29, 2025 | By Camden Markel

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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To: dennisw
I've read some reports that state that Shedeur's attitude .. and answers .. in the pre-draft interviews were some of the worst they'd ever seen.

Despite what he and his father, Prime Time, think of his talent level, he's not good enough to wield the same pre-draft leverage that Eli Manning or John Elway did.  He may turn out to be one of the all-time greats, but he certainly got off on the wrong foot.

21 posted on 04/30/2025 4:25:48 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: Nifty

“The draft has been made a spectacle to give the “fans” something to sit and watch on TV anyway.”

Because of sports betting and even more so now, with legal online sports betting everywhere.


22 posted on 04/30/2025 4:26:03 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I don’t see Will Howard as fat and slow.


23 posted on 04/30/2025 4:31:22 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (XKeep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: dennisw

I didn’t much like Neon Deion, because he always came across as flashy and self-absorbed to me. Over the years, that hasn’t changed much. The guy is talented, but he’s an egomaniac. I respect him, but I think he was part of the problem with Shadeur’s fall.


24 posted on 04/30/2025 4:31:41 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: RainMan

I thought I had read one who did that. I just thought it was smart if he did that.


25 posted on 04/30/2025 4:41:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If the life of a fish is as valuable as a human, why can't humans eat fish when fish eat fish?.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“After all the BS and fake hype he ends up with the Browns. Too funny.”

You know it’s bad when the Jets don’t draft you.


26 posted on 04/30/2025 4:42:06 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem.)
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To: dennisw

Maybe Qualer Quift will be there to lift dar spirits by writing dem dar song fur him and eating little Debbies in the booth, while in spring training sessions.


27 posted on 04/30/2025 4:45:43 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 thoe prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: dennisw

Chris Carter was a HOF receiver, who almost singlehandedly cost the Vikings a Superbowl title, by being a total disruptive cancer, in the locker room. Great hands, terrible judgement.


28 posted on 04/30/2025 4:48:04 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Red Badger

Manziel had the dual problems of being bipolar and an alcoholic. His counselors and agents should have gotten help for him. Instead he was marketed like chattal by an adoring media and big league college football administrators.
Maybe Shadeur Sanders has a noticeable glaring personality
disorder also.
IMHO


29 posted on 04/30/2025 4:51:00 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: one guy in new jersey

I have my moments of insanity. I ment to type “mouth” vice moth, but on my phone it’s difficult to always see what is going on, esp. with the auto-dictionary wars daily.


30 posted on 04/30/2025 4:51:57 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: FamiliarFace
Remember that Deion Sanders himself was a giant red flag for NFL teams for other reasons, too — dating back to his playing days:

1. He used his baseball career as leverage in his NFL contract negotiations. That itself made him a risky bet. Why spend a precious draft pick on a guy who might never sign a contract?

2. Atlanta drafted him and he was a great player for them, but he won two Super Bowls with other teams (San Francisco and Dallas). Atlanta got nothing in return when he signed with the 49ers as a free agent in 1994.

31 posted on 04/30/2025 4:55:20 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Jonty30

I hope that it’s a strip club called ‘Solid Gold’, like the one owned by former Buffalo Bills kicker, Scott Wood, in the film ‘Buffalo ‘66’. Actor Ben Gazzara’s best film.


32 posted on 04/30/2025 4:56:06 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (tried to invade )
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To: dennisw
Thank you!

Rarity for the necessary info to be contained in the "excerpt" so you don't have to click on the link.

33 posted on 04/30/2025 4:59:19 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: dennisw

As I said previously, the nfl draft is a cross between a slave auction and a minstrel show.


34 posted on 04/30/2025 5:12:01 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
As I said previously, the nfl draft is a cross between a slave auction and a minstrel show.


35 posted on 04/30/2025 5:16:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dennisw

Cris Carter. All he does is catch touchdowns!


36 posted on 04/30/2025 5:16:44 AM PDT by dixie1202
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To: dennisw

Sanders reminded everyone of another cocky college QB whose mouth wrote a bunch of checks his playing couldn’t cash. Ask the Bears how #1 pick Caleb Williams worked out.


37 posted on 04/30/2025 5:17:54 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Red Badger

Cleveland is where QBs go to fade away into the CFL or USFL.


38 posted on 04/30/2025 5:25:37 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

That’s basically what I wrote last week, Cleveland is where football careers go to die..................


39 posted on 04/30/2025 5:28:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dennisw

Who would want to deal with Dion as his agent ?


40 posted on 04/30/2025 5:39:09 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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