Program-shifting transfer ‘most NFL-ready quarterback’ in Colorado history
Program-shifting Colorado football transfer Shedeur Sanders was dubbed by BuffsBeat’s Mark McIntosh as the “most NFL-ready quarterback” in the University of Colorado’s history — though McIntosh stopped short of calling No. 2 the Buffs’ best of all time.
“Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, despite the ill-advised interception in double overtime, continues to impress and has NFL scouts fascinated,” McIntosh prefaced before saying, “CU’s ‘Grown’ QB can play.
“As an observer of Colorado football for almost 50 years, including a front-row seat for the McCartney, Neuheisel and Barnett years, your scribe doesn’t think it’s a stretch to call the 21-year-old the most ‘NFL-ready quarterback in CU football history.’ Only Kordell Stewart comes to mind as a rival. Athletic guys with powerful and accurate arms and dangerous running abilities. However, CU’s current signal caller is not the best quarterback in CU history.”
2022 Colorado football RB coach deemed best QB in Buffs history
While Coach Prime has nothing nice to say about the 2022 Colorado football program, McIntosh hurled the “best ever” superlative towards the running back coach for that program, Darian Hagan, who was the Buffs’ triple-option QB during the team’s 1990 championship season and was named Sporting News College Football Player of the Year during the 1989 season after his predecessor under center and the team’s starting QB until a cancer diagnosis, Sal Aunese, passed away.
“That distinction still rests with Darian Hagan,” McIntosh said of Hagan. “No other quarterback has the resume of the south Los Angeles native.”
Of course, Shedeur won’t have that either if he takes to the NFL as some project him to. The odds are high, though, that he listens to Coach Prime; who has pleaded for his sons Shedur and Shilo to return in 2024. That certainly won’t stop there from being more false first-round projections for Shedeur, who needs more polish to ever be worth an NFL draft day one selection, though.