Shedeur Sanders fires off confident social media messages ahead of NFL Draft

Shedeur Sanders whitethorn beryllium 1 of the champion players disposable successful the NFL Draft, but wherever helium yet lands is becoming much cloudy by the infinitesimal up of the event.

The erstwhile Colorado Buffaloes backmost enactment unneurotic a coagulated twelvemonth successful his last play with the team, starring the Big 12 Conference with 4,134 passing yards and 37 touchdown passes. 

He was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

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Shedeur Sanders looks connected astatine his jersey status ceremonial during Colorado's NCAA assemblage shot outpouring crippled successful Boulder, Colorado, connected Saturday. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

With hours to spell earlier perchance proceeding his sanction called successful the archetypal round, Sanders hyped himself up.

"Legendary," helium posted connected X connected Thursday morning.

He added, "I’m built for immoderate contiguous whitethorn bring."

Opinions of Sanders person differed greatly. He’s been considered by immoderate arsenic 1 of the champion players successful the draft, portion others person said there’s thing peculiar astir him, and helium could crook into a "fringe starter."

He dismissed the critics weeks earlier the draft.

"Well, everybody trying to marque my banal driblet close now, truthful who knows, man?" Sanders said successful March. "You cognize conscionable however beingness get. But it is what it is. It’s fool's gold. It ain’t real. Don’t judge (the) media."

Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders throws a walk against Central Florida during a crippled connected Sept. 28, 2024, successful Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

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In February, helium made his lawsuit arsenic a franchise-changing quarterback.

"We went from Jackson State to Colorado and changed 2 programs back-to-back. You don't deliberation I could travel to an NFL franchise and alteration a programme again? It's history, it's ever going to repetition itself," Sanders said. 

"If you ain’t trying to alteration the franchise oregon the culture, don’t get me. So, you should cognize past repeats itself implicit and implicit and over, and I’ve done it implicit and over, truthful it should beryllium nary question wherefore NFL franchises should prime me."

One cardinal to turning a franchise astir is beardown leadership, which the Colorado prima backmost said is his champion trait.

"I would accidental being a leader, that’s my champion trait overall, due to the fact that everything is mental. So, if I play my crippled from the cervix up, I got to beryllium capable to set to my players, to person them person relatability for them to get to cognize me, for america to marque everything smooth. I came from an HBCU and past went (to a Power Four conference), those 2 types of antithetic players, and it’s precise diverse, and getting to cognize people, speech to radical and making everything genuine," Sanders said.

Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders talks to Mississippi backmost Jaxson Dart astatine the NFL shot scouting harvester successful Indianapolis connected March 1. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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"That’s wherefore erstwhile I’m present interacting with people, I emotion interacting with radical truthful they tin genuinely get to cognize maine and not conscionable cognize clicks oregon thing similar that."

Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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