Shedeur Sanders has recently seen his name slip down draft projections. An ex-NFL head coach has a theory of why that might be.
From the onset of the long and diligent process of preparing for the 2025 NFL Draft, the general consensus surrounding the quarterback position has been that it has been a two-player arms race between Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders.
Last year, the league’s 32 teams, or at least the ones that needed a new signal caller, were spoiled by having a ransom of six first-round worthy prospects to choose from to fill the most significant void in their offensive huddle.
All six of those players went in the event’s first 12 picks and five in the top 10, signaling a great value in poaching an arm early without it being a reach.
Nearly 12 months later, the 2025 quarterback class hasn’t been receiving as much love as its preceding one. The word around league circles has had the two aforementioned quarterbacks as the only ones in the group deemed early first-round selections. However, even that belief has started to shift negatively for the latter guy in Sanders.
In recent weeks, the son of NFL legend and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders has seen his draft stock start to take a skid while other second-tier prospects, like Ole Miss’s Jaxson Dart, are slowly creeping up the board towards a sneaky late first-round grab.
Much of the trend has seemingly been placed on the fact that Sanders hasn’t shown himself and his skillset at recent evaluation markers, including the NFL Combine last month.
- However, to legendary college and former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer, who recently appeared on FS1’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, those things are more likely smoke and mirrors than what is actually affecting Sanders’ status on the quarterback totem pole with just over a month left until the draft.
Meyer made his feelings known that the unspoken reason why teams are fading Sanders has come down to whether he can truly make it far given the demands of the everyday NFL backfield.
