Star Colorado football transfer Shedeur Sanders shouldn’t garner first-round NFL draft consideration according to Mike Farrell, the “Godfather of Recruiting” — who instead sees No. 2 as “a round-two talent at best.”
“(Shedeur being a round-one talent) came up after last week’s debate about whether ESPN NFL Draft analyst Matt Miller was right or wrong (he’s wrong) to have Sanders ahead of UNC QB Drake Maye for next year’s draft,” Farrell prefaced in his “fiction” response in a “Fact or Fiction” piece about Shedeur going being a first-round pick before saying, “And it got me thinking — why is Sanders even considered a round-one talent? He has size and a solid arm and he’s accurate but he’s also not great going through progressions and check downs and he is a statue back there without a great clock in his head. He’s a sack machine unless he processes quicker and makes faster decisions. At the college level, it’s evident. At the NFL level, he’d be doomed. He’s a round-two talent at best for me right now and likely round-three.”
Shedeur not being a first-round talent is likely why he’ll be returning to Boulder for Year 2 of the Coach Prime era of Buffs football. Deion Sanders has already told both of his sons that they’ll be returning for one last ride for the whole family in Colorado in 2024.
Colorado football needs recruiting boost in offseason for the sake of Coach Prime’s long-term future in Boulder
Colorado fans hoping Coach Prime will be in Boulder for a good time and not a long one need not worry about a one-and-one season with the Buffs, but there are definitely concerns about Deion hitting the old dusty trail after two years on the job.
While the program did land Antwann Hill with the hopes of having Shedeur hand the baton off to the Warner Robins, Georgia star, Coach Prime’s goals may shift after seeing his two sons through at CU. Perhaps he and his basketball-playing daughter, Shelomi Sanders, could be a package deal at any next destination; a destination he can arrive to that features a vastly superior talent base to what Colorado football had in 2022.
A recruiting boost that makes the Buffs good enough to win the Big 12, and perhaps achieve more, in 2024 could put these worries to rest.