Shedeur Sanders sitting out for an entire season? 2025 couldn't be worse if the scenario Pro Football Talk's Michael David Smith proposed ever came to fruition. Smith believes Sanders' vast resources as Coach Prime's son could help soften the financial blow if the "Grown QB" pulled such a maneuver.
"Players can’t control who drafts them, but a player can strongly encourage or strongly discourage certain teams if he has strong opinions about where he should play. And a player with a father who’s very well-connected in NFL circles is better positioned to identify the players he’s willing to play for or unwilling to play for. And a player with family wealth is better positioned to use the leverage of sitting out an entire year and re-entering the draft the following year if he doesn’t like the team that drafts him," Smith wrote.
Shedeur has made it obvious the Las Vegas Raiders are his team of choice, but Coach Prime made it even more obvious when he straight-up asked Antonio Pierce to draft his sons.
“You are truly the best,” Sanders told Pierce. “Now I just need you to do one thing: I need you to draft those Sanders boys.”
Let's assume Shedeur and Deion get their way here. A rogue NFL franchise breaking the script and taking Shedeur would cause distractions in Boulder, Las Vegas, and in whatever city would have the gall to do that.
Considering Cam Ward is right there, teams may not be inclined to take that chance.
Could Shedeur Sanders come back to Colorado for a fifth year?
Unfortunately, Shedeur is already planning on spending his NFL salary on helping the Buffs with NIL spending.
He's also already declared for the NFL draft and shut down the possibility of being back. Shedeur speaks about his college career in the past tense.
The glory days of Shedeur, Shilo, and Travis Hunter are over in Colorado. Glorious days of "Prime Time" still lie ahead without them in the Centennial State, though.