Colorado football source: Shedeur Sanders doesn't care about preseason All-American snub
BuffZone's Brian Howell believes Colorado football QB Shedeur Sanders isn't all that concerned that he was snubbed at his position from the preseason All-American team less than two weeks before the start of the 2024 season.
"Knowing Shedeur Sanders a little bit, I would guess he doesn’t really care about the preseason All-American team," Howell prefaced before saying, "And I know this isn’t the type of thing he needs for motivation. He’s plenty motivated and fired up."
The NFL Rookie Watch account had claimed that Shedeur's snub had lit a fire to be the best.
"Shedeur Sanders reportedly has a 'fire lit under his a**' after being snubbed from the preseason All-American team," the account wrote. "The AP decided to give the nod to Carson Beck and Dillon Gabriel instead of Sanders, which reportedly 'fired up' Sanders.
"Multiple NFL scouts reportedly believe Sanders is in for a 'Heisman-Esqe' season."
Truthfully, there's no reason to think Shedeur wouldn't use it as motivation, but Howell might just be confirming that there are no actual notable substantiated reports about the "Grown QB" feeling any type of way about the preseason All-American team.
That's an easy one to write off as hearsay when no games have been played yet.
Shedeur Sanders has NFL draft and Colorado football's record on his mind, not the preseason All-American team
The opinions of a couple of writers on behalf of the Associated Press probably don't bother Shedeur that much. Deion Sanders already dealt with the narrative he wouldn't answer a CBS reporter's question due to an unfavorable Big 12 coaches ranking; when meanwhile it was a project the network let him down over. Now it's Shedeur's turn.
Shedeur being snubbed from anything is headline news these days. It isn't shocking to see accounts come from the woodwork and claim he felt something he never explicitly felt.
It would be shocking to see Shedeur not respond to the snub with another stellar season.