Boomer Esiason Says Nfl Owners Took Shedeur Sanders Off Their Draft Boards Because Of Attitude

Former NFL backmost Boomer Esiason unloaded on Shedeur Sanders connected Monday pursuing his melodramatic descent successful nan 2025 NFL Draft, claiming that respective teams took nan erstwhile Colorado backmost disconnected their draught committee because owners did not want an "entitled person" connected their roster. 

Sanders was drafted by the Cleveland Browns successful nan 5th information of nan draught pinch nan 144th wide pick. The stunning autumn followed a melodramatic play that began pinch galore predicting that he would apt beryllium selected successful nan first information on pinch teammate Travis Hunter, who was drafted by nan Jacksonville Jaguars pinch nan 2nd wide pick. 

Colorado Buffaloes backmost Shedeur Sanders, #2, talks to ESPN aft nan University of Colorado NFL Showcase astatine nan CU Indoor Practice Facility connected April 4, 2025. (Michael Ciaglo-Imagn Images)

Not only had Sanders been passed complete until nan 5th round, he was besides Cleveland’s 2nd prime astatine quarterback. The Browns had already drafted Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel successful nan 3rd round. 

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Esiason said Monday that he was not amazed by Sanders’ fall, claiming that respective NFL unit confirmed to him that their respective owners demanded that Sanders beryllium removed from their plans altogether. 

"Shedeur Sanders conscionable torpedoed himself. His cognition disconnected nan section – each those bad meetings that he had astatine nan combine. His dada didn’t thief him either," Esiason said connected Monday’s section of nan "Boomer and Gio" show. 

"I mean, he’s very precocious connected himself and I deliberation he was very off-putting to galore coaches and wide managers successful nan league. And I’m telling you correct now, and I cognize this aft talking to 3 different unit group successful nan NFL this weekend, they didn’t moreover person him connected their board. They took him disconnected and they took him disconnected because nan proprietor said ‘Take him off, I don’t want that guy. I don’t want this benignant of personification successful our – this entitled personification connected our team.’"

Boomer Esiason, erstwhile Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, waives earlier being announced astatine halftime arsenic a Bengals Ring of Champions inductee astatine halftime of nan NFL crippled betwixt nan Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams astatine Paycor Stadium successful Cincinnati connected Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (IMAGN)

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Sanders faced important disapproval successful nan lead up to past week’s draft. One longtime NFL adjunct coach precocious told the NFL Network that Sanders was "the worst general question and reply I've ever been successful in my life." 

"He's truthful entitled. He takes unnecessary sacks. He ne'er plays connected time. He has horrible assemblage language. He blames teammates," nan coach continued. "But nan biggest point is, he's not that good." 

Sanders was a projected first-round pick. Among nan projected landing spots were the New York Giants, who had nan 3rd wide pick, and nan New Orleans Saints, who had nan No. 9 pick. When some teams moved successful different directions, nan Pittsburgh Steelers astatine No. 21 seemed for illustration nan adjacent viable option, but Sanders' sanction again remained connected nan board. 

A surface shows Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders aft being chosen by nan Cleveland Browns pinch nan 144th wide prime during nan 3rd time of nan NFL shot draught connected Saturday, April 26, 2025 successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Esiason seemingly agreed pinch his sources.

"I don’t blasted them. When you perceive to nan measurement he was talking astir himself, immoderate of nan actions that you’ve seen connected nan section successful position of his interactions pinch different players, shoving a referee successful nan back, building his ain draught room, legendary, having each this crap hanging disconnected – I mean, this is fundamentally a wake-up telephone to I deliberation a batch of these athletes."

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