Shedeur Sanders was once a sure-fire top-three 2025 NFL draft pick. Once, as in, before a 36-14 blowout loss in the Alamo Bowl to BYU that may have changed the course of the Colorado football program's trajectory.
Now, Shedeur is getting bad press left and right. On Friday, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero relayed brutal assessments of Shedeur's draft stock.
"I've already talked to people within the league who don't have anything close to a first-round grade on the guy," Pelissero said, per Bleacher Report.
"The idea that he's just going to walk in and going to be the No. 1 pick, that's probably pushing it... if I were guessing who comes off the board first, I'd say Shedeur is not the first Colorado player off the board as it stands today."
On Saturday, it got worse. The Athletic's Dianna Russini reported a damning comparison of Shedeur and Cam Ward to the 2024 QB draft class.
"(Shedeur and Ward) should definitely be behind Bo Nix, in my opinion. I could see people grouping [Penix], Ward, and Sanders together, but honestly, it'd probably just come down to picking your favorite flavor among the three. None of them really scream 'franchise QB' to me," an anonymous AFC GM said.
Shedeur can't win right now. One bad performance against the Cougs in the Buffs' bowl game has somewhat brought down the sky in Boulder.
Deion Sanders leaving is more of a possibility than it was. At least according to certain industry "tea leaves." Many in NFL circles mention Coach Prime jumping to the pros as a possibility.
Like Shedeur and Travis Hunter's time with Colorado, which produced endless awards and nominations between the two of them, all good things must come to an end. Is Deion going to stay five to 10 years with a program that supposedly ran out of NIL money?
If those rumors are even close to true, absolutely not.