Shilo Sanders sends encouraging message to Colorado fans
Incoming Colorado football transfer safety Shilo Sanders, the middle son of Coach Prime and the oldest still playing, had an encouraging message about his health to share with Buffs fans and the rest of the college football world; claiming that he has never performed at a higher level since his debut with South Carolina in 2019.
“I feel good right now because last year I was coming off an injury in the spring,” Sanders said (h/t Buffaloes Wire). “This is the smartest, strongest and fastest I’ve ever been, especially being coached by coach (Charles) Kelly and our staff. I got my dad Coach Prime (Deion Sanders) up here. They’re always teaching us hustling to the ball, effort and the stuff that really makes a difference between good and great because I’m trying to be great.”
With all of that said, though, Sanders isn’t taking the challenge the Buffaloes are facing — mainly, integrating basically an entire system on both sides of the ball after historic program turnover in the offseason — lightly in the slightest…
Shilo Sanders on challenges he and Colorado football are facing in 2023
Sanders, just as his father would do, put pressure on himself and his Colorado football teammates to step up to the massive challenges they face.
“We got a lot of new players so just everybody getting the same page,” Sanders said on August 21 (h/t On3). “We’re running a pro defense with Coach Kelly’s playbook so we have to play like pros, so just getting everybody on the same page. Just doing all that. I wouldn’t say it’s the biggest challenge but we’re working towards it.
“If I play good, then that’s average. So I have to be great. So that’s what I’m striving for right now. I don’t know, I’ve worn No. 21 since I was like six-years-old. It’s always been, for me and Sheduer, you’ve got to expect us to be great. You can’t even be good, because that’s just average.”
David didn’t take down Goliath by cowering away from the challenge. While Sanders sounds delusional to the pack of hyenas in the national media waiting to watch the Buffs fail, to anyone who understands the undertaking he and his teammates are about to confront, he’s saying all the right things.