Rumors of Deion Sanders leaving Colorado football for the Cowboys are officially dead

It's over. Done. Deion Sanders leaving Colorado football for the Dallas Cowboys? It's not happening. Ever.

Dak Prescott signed a four-year, $240 million contract extension from Jerry Jones, per ESPN's Adam Schefter. Shedeur Sanders is now out of the realm of possibility to be drafted by the Cowboys unless Jones wants to push his newly-signed QB in the same way Kirk Cousins was in Atlanta when the Falcons drafted Michael Penix Jr.

Jones probably doesn't want that media headache. He gets those because of the city and stadium he plays in and the reputation he has built.

Without Shedeur, Dallas won't get Deion. Ipso facto, this rumor could go away for good. In fact, all NFL rumors involving Sanders can dissipate now. Coach Prime isn't going anywhere in the NFL. And he probably won't go anywhere else in the Power 4, either.

Deion Sanders can leave coaching altogether if Colorado football record, recruiting don't improve

Sanders' recruiting at the Power 4 level is tied directly to what he can build in the transfer portal due to his 40-40-20 rule -- Sanders' split of 40% grad transfers, 40% undergrad transfers, and 20% high school recruits in his recruiting class -- that he refuses to forsake. Thus far, the results are underwhelming on the field: 5-9 through Week 2 of his second season at CU.

And you can't blame being new on why that is. Sanders is always going to be new to his players, and his players to each other, with the way he recruits.

Coach Prime got into coaching to develop Shilo and Shedeur into NFL draft picks and that plan will likely yield at least one; in the first round, possibly within the first few picks. In that regard, his career is complete.

Sanders has said he won't follow his sons to the NFL, but who is to say he won't just retreat to his mansion in the foothills and give up coaching once that goal is gone? He did say after the Wazzu game that the 2023 season was the toughest time in his life and some question if he's even having fun this year, either.

Retirement is more likely than anything else for Sanders. But the Cowboys are no longer even "never say never" as long as Prescott is under center.