In what can now be described with precision as a shocking slide – No doubt the most surprising in the history of the NFL – The quarter-back of Colorado Buffaloes Shemer Sanders was not selected through the second and third laps of the NFL draft on Friday. He will now wait to see if his name is called on Saturday, the last day of the draft, which encompasses the rounds four to seven.
Even among the criticisms of Sanders, its fall through the first 102 choices of the draft was magnificent. A former director general of the NFL who spotted Sanders during the 2023 and 2024 university football seasons – and who had historically been lukewarm in his assessments – expressed his surprise that Sanders is available when the fourth round will open on Saturday.
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“I'm shocked that it’s so bad,” he said. “I thought it was one (second to the third year) in reality, but it seems personal.”
In the current state of things, Sanders has been bypassed several times by several franchises with a certain level of need for a pressing quarterrier – notably the Browns of Cleveland, the Giants of New York, the Raiders of Las Vegas, the New Orleans and the Pittsburgh Steelers. After three laps, five quarters were chosen in front of him: Miami Cam Ward at Titans du TennesseeMississippi Jaxson Dart in GiantsLouisville Tyler Shough with saintsAlabama Jalen Milroe at Seattle Seahawks And Oregon Dillon Gabriel in Browns.
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The situation underlines a difficult start to the start of the project itself for Sanders, which was preceded by a NFL network report which cited several anonymous league sources which hammered Sanders with strong criticism on its level of play and pre-artisanat interviews. Although anonymous criticisms were not the first in Sanders in this process, the nature of certain comments – notably by calling it “titled” and “not very good” as a player – attracted a series of negative reactions inside and outside the circles of the League.
After the conclusion of the first round, Sanders spoke to those present on his Texas surveillance site. In a video published on Instagram by his father, deion, He supervised the moment “fuel to fire”.
“We did not all expect, of course, but I have the impression that with God, everything is possible, anything is possible, and I have the impression that it did not happen without reason,” said Sanders. “All this is of course the fuel for fire. In any case – we all know that it should not have happened, but we understand that we are on bigger and better things. If tomorrow is the day, we will be happy despite everything.”
Now, with Sanders having dropped with three laps, there seems to be growing acceptance among the assessors that his fall has at least one link with certain coaches and executives who have been rubbed in the wrong direction by his personality, some of his interviews and his entire work jump with the giants. At this point, it is a combination of factors that can be quantified and some who probably cannot – like the fact that his father has always been his head coach at high football levels.
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The fall is such that it is not only an autopsy to understand why – it is an autopsy by team It had a chance to select it and decided not to do it. In particular the teams that have selected quarter-Arrière players during the first three laps (Titans, Giants, Browns and Saints) and the one who did not do it (the Steelers).
Now, the intrigue will focus on how it resolves with what a leader called “the itinerant circus” with more Sanders fell during the rounds. It was a reality that reached a summit on Friday before the start of the second round, when President Donald Trump published a message on social networks tearing the NFL teams so as not to write Sanders in the first round. Meanwhile, some media members with Titanic social support on their accounts began to publish biting criticism from Sanders' slide, with the same to suggest that it was a situation similar to Colin Kaepernick Blackball.
All of this is what is going on now on Saturday and the last four cycles of the draft, with a key touch: there are now even fewer teams with important quarter-arre needs, now that five franchises have already selected a player in the post. All of this means that Sanders' destination could possibly be a team that does not need a quarter at all, but simply cannot transmit its talent while its continuous selection point to fall.
