NFL Draft: Shedeur Sanders’ Message Before Event Starts
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Chedur Sanders He may be one of the best players available in the NFL Draft, but where he will eventually land is getting cloudy by the moment of the event.
The former Colorado Buffalo quarterback had a solid year in his final season with the team, leading the Big 12 Conference with 4,134 passing yards and 37 touchdown passes.
He was named the Big 12 Attacking Player of the Year.
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Chedure Sanders at his Jersey retirement ceremony during a NCAA College Football Spring Game in Colorado took place on April 19, 2025 in Boulder, Collodora. (AP photo/Jack Dempsey)
Sanders had time to go before he heard his name in the first round.
“Legend,” he posted to X on Thursday morning.
He added, “I was built for what I might bring today.”
Sanders’ opinions were very different. Some are considered one of the best players in the draft, but others say there’s nothing special about him, and he could be a “fringe starter.”
He dismissed critics a few weeks before the draft.
“Well, everyone is trying to lower my stock right now, so who knows?” Sanders said. In March. “You know how life comes to you. But that’s what it is. It’s the money of the fool. It’s not the real thing. Don’t believe in the media.”
Colorado quarterback Shedur Sanders threw a pass against Central Florida on September 28, 2024, in the first half of the game in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, file)
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In February he insisted as a quarterback changing the franchise.
“We went from Jackson to Colorado and changed two programs in a row. Don’t you think we can come to the NFL franchise and change the program again? That’s history. Always repeat,” Sanders said.
“If you’re not trying to change your franchise or culture, don’t get me, so you have to know that history is repeated over and over again.
One key to turning the franchise around is the strong leadership that the Colorado Star quarterback said. His best features.
“I’d say I’m a leader, that’s my best trait. Everything is mental. So, when you play the game up the neck and you can adapt to the players, and to make them smooth everything, I’ve come from HBCU (Power 4 Conference), developed two types of players, and it really exists. I said.
Colorado quarterback Shedure Sanders speaks with Mississippi quarterback Jackson Dart on March 1, 2025 at the NFL Football Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
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“That’s why when I’m here, I love interacting with people, so they can really get to know me and not just clicks and stuff like that, they can really get to know me.”
Chantz Martin of Fox News contributed to this report.
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