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 the 2025 NFL Draft, claiming that respective teams took the erstwhile Colorado backmost disconnected their draught committee due to the fact that owners did not privation an "entitled person" connected their roster. 

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

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

Not lone had Sanders been passed implicit until the 5th round, helium was besides Cleveland’s 2nd prime astatine quarterback. The Browns had already drafted Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel successful the 3rd round. 

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Esiason said Monday that helium 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 the tract – each those atrocious meetings that helium had astatine the combine. His dada didn’t assistance him either," Esiason said connected Monday’s occurrence of the "Boomer and Gio" show. 

"I mean, he’s precise precocious connected himself and I deliberation helium was precise off-putting to galore coaches and wide managers successful the league. And I’m telling you close now, and I cognize this aft talking to 3 antithetic unit radical successful the NFL this weekend, they didn’t adjacent person him connected their board. They took him disconnected and they took him disconnected due to the fact that the proprietor said ‘Take him off, I don’t privation that guy. I don’t privation this benignant of idiosyncratic successful our – this entitled idiosyncratic 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 the NFL crippled betwixt the 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 the pb up to past week’s draft. One longtime NFL adjunct manager precocious told the NFL Network that Sanders was "the worst ceremonial interrogation 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," the manager continued. "But the biggest happening is, he's not that good." 

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

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

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Esiason seemingly agreed with his sources.

"I don’t blasted them. When you perceive to the mode helium was talking astir himself, immoderate of the actions that you’ve seen connected the tract successful presumption of his interactions with different players, shoving a referee successful the back, gathering 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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