Colin Cowherd got a little carried away with his attempt to lure Shedeur Sanders to the Dallas Cowboys; concocting a mock trade that would send Micah Parsons and three draft picks to a team with one of the top picks in the draft.
"I would go get Deion Sanders. I would pick Shedeur Sanders. If I had to give up Micah Parsons and three firsts, I would do it," Cowherd said on the November 19 edition of The Herd.
Shedeur is a franchise-changing QB, but the Cowboys already paid Dak Prescott like he is. Prescott's efforts haven't gotten Dallas far in 2024, and he's on the shelf for the rest of the season. Cooper Rush is in to salvage the Cowboys' season/solidify the tank, but drafting Shedeur makes little long-term sense after extending Prescott.
Doing so was a major strategic error by Jerry Jones. It might have cost him the "Grown QB."
Deion Sanders is never going to the Cowboys to become Dallas's head coach
Maybe, just maybe, Jones could find a taker for the remainder of Prescott's contract. It'd certainly cost the Cowboys a pretty penny. In that hypothetical, Shedeur could be on the table in Dallas.
Deion will never join him, though. As On SI's Josh Sanchez writes, Sanders isn't leaving CU, where he's become a local hero instantly, to get constant flak from Jones.
"Coach Prime has taken the Buffs from a 1-11 team before he arrived to an 8-2 program in the mix for the College Football Playoff. He is already a Colorado legend, so why leave for a job where an unpredictable owner will hover over you and the pressure to make an immediate impact could hurt your coaching reputation? No smart man would take the job," Sanchez wrote.
The Sanders family came up in Dallas but have since become stars in Colorado. And from the looks of it, Coach Prime will remain in the Centennial State while Shedeur heads to the desert to be a Raider.