Shedeur Sanders' 'mistake' Cost Him Draft Position, Nfl Analyst Says

Shedeur Sanders’ draught descent remained nan taxable of speech a week aft nan Cleveland Browns selected nan backmost successful nan 5th information of nan 2025 NFL Draft.

The aftermath has had each existent and erstwhile subordinate and pundit trying to fig retired why a subordinate for illustration Sanders, who had been projected to beryllium 1 of nan first players disconnected nan board, had managed to autumn each nan measurement down to No. 144.

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Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders (2) jogs onto nan section during nan crippled against nan Kansas Jayhawks astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium.  (Nick Tre. Smith-Imagn Images)

ESPN NFL Draft expert Matt Miller shed immoderate ray connected nan erstwhile Colorado Buffaloes star’s fall. He pointed to really Sanders and his campy had handled nan full draught process.

"I didn’t deliberation that they handled nan process well," he told Awful Announcing. "And that’s not conscionable hindsight. I took a batch of power for saying connected ‘NFL Live,’ correct earlier nan NFL Scouting Combine, that he was making a mistake. 

"He should beryllium throwing astatine nan NFL Scouting Combine. He should person worked retired astatine nan East-West Shrine Game that he accepted an induce to. The NFL has this caller norm that if you judge an induce to an All-Star Game, you person to participate. And he didn’t. So, I said connected TV that they were not handling nan process well. And I thought it would wounded him. People were not happy pinch me."

Miller still believed Sanders was "overrated arsenic a player."

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, #2 of nan Colorado Buffaloes, throws a walk during nan first half of nan NCAAF crippled against nan Arizona State Sun Devils astatine Mountain America Stadium connected October 7, 2023, successful Tempe, Arizona.  (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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"I had a batch of messages. I had a batch of responses to nan video ESPN put retired saying that. So I do deliberation … was he overrated arsenic a player? Yes, based connected nan talents and nan devices he has arsenic a player, he was not a apical 2 aliases 3 subordinate successful this draught class," he said. "But past you get to nan process portion of it. And nan NFL will humble anyone. 

"How nan NFL views you and evaluates you, they will humble each player. So I deliberation for nan Sanders camp, they had this cognition of Shedeur arsenic a fastener 2 aliases 3 draught pick. And they approached nan process that way. There was ne'er anyone from nan extracurricular that could get done to him and say, ‘Wait a second, he’s not guaranteed to beryllium a 2 aliases 3 draught pick.’ And nan truth that you are approaching nan process that measurement is hurting him."

Sanders will person nan expertise to beryllium everyone incorrect pinch the Browns.

A schematic announcing Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders’ action by nan Cleveland Browns pinch nan 144th wide prime successful nan Draft Theater during nan 3rd time of nan 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field connected April 25, 2025.  (Tork Mason/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

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He will compete for a starting occupation against Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel. Deshaun Watson is apt to miss nan full 2025 play aft re-rupturing his Achilles successful nan offseason.

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