Shedeur Sanders and family react to Browns picking him after historic, controversial NFL Draft slide

Shedeur Sanders is employed. 

The Cleveland Browns utilized the No. 144 wide prime successful the 5th circular of the NFL Draft to instrumentality Sanders connected Saturday, ending 1 of the astir shocking slides by a apical backmost imaginable successful league history. 

Sanders was, by some, projected to beryllium the archetypal backmost taken this twelvemonth soon aft the extremity of the 2024 assemblage shot season. But passim the draught process, that dramatically changed, and Sanders fell each the mode to the 3rd day. 

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Feb 6, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA;  Deion Sanders (right) with his lad Shedeur Sanders connected the reddish carpet earlier Super Bowl LIX NFL Honors astatine Saenger Theatre. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

The household was astatine the halfway immense nationalist attraction with video footage of their handling of the melodramatic fall. This included Sanders giving a code to his household admitting that they weren't prepared to autumn retired of the archetypal circular connected Thursday, and footage of a prank telephone to the imaginable connected Friday. 

But connected Saturday, the household yet heard his sanction called…and it was clip to party. 

In footage livestreamed connected Twitch, Sanders and his household members were seen exploding successful a raucous screeching solemnisation erstwhile his sanction was called. 

Additional footage showed the household breaking retired into spontaneous creation moments aft the enactment was made. 

Shedeur himself made his ain connection aft the drafting, crediting God. 

"Thank you God," helium wrote. 

Sanders and his household members thanked God repeatedly passim draught weekend. 

Sanders led the Big 12 Conference with 4,134 passing yards and 37 touchdown passes and was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. In his 50 assemblage games, Sanders threw for 14,347 yards, 134 touchdowns and 27 interceptions. 

For a backmost imaginable of that esteem to autumn retired of the 3rd circular is highly antithetic successful the NFL. 

President Donald Trump adjacent joined successful connected the statement connected Friday, erstwhile helium ripped "stupid" NFL owners for passing connected the prima Colorado backmost and allowing him to autumn into the 2nd round.

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"What is incorrect with NFL owners, are they STUPID? Deion Sanders was a large assemblage shot player, and was adjacent greater successful the NFL. He’s besides a precise bully coach, streetwise and smart! Therefore, Shedeur, his backmost son, has PHENOMENAL GENES, and is each acceptable for Greatness," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post. 

"He should beryllium "picked" IMMEDIATELY by a squad that wants to WIN. Good luck Shedeur, and accidental hullo to your fantastic father!"

Top prospects similar Sanders person seen shocking slides successful past NFL Drafts. Aaron Rodgers slipped down to the 25th wide prime successful the 2005 NFL Draft, and was passed connected for Alex Smith by the 49ers.

Patrick Mahomes wasn't taken until the 10th prime successful the 2017 Draft, and was passed connected for Mitch Trubisky by the Bears. Still, astatine the time, Mahomes was little of a hyped imaginable than Sanders. 

Lamar Jackson fell each the mode to the 32nd prime successful the 2018 draft, aft 4 different quarterbacks were taken up of him. 

But Sanders, who was erstwhile considered the apical campaigner to spell No. 1 wide this year, falling to time 3 of the draft, is simply a historical anomaly. 

An anonymous NFL manager told the NFL Network 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." 

Another longtime AFC enforcement echoed that sentiment, telling the outlet, "It didn't spell large successful our interview. He wants to dictate what he's going to bash and what's champion for him. He makes you consciousness small." 

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Three quarterbacks were past taken up of him, including lower-rated prospects Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough. 

Then Sanders was prank-called by an imposter during a livestream Friday night. While helium and his household live-streamed time 2 of their NFL Draft enactment connected Twitch Friday night, Sanders was seen answering a telephone telephone that helium assumed was from a wide manager making the determination to draught him. 

But the wait, media scrutiny and adjacent prank intelligibly wasn't capable to dampen the family's spirits erstwhile helium yet was taken, nor their religion successful God. 

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