Shedeur Sanders' 'mistake' cost him draft position, NFL analyst says

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

The aftermath has had each existent and erstwhile subordinate and pundit trying to fig retired wherefore a subordinate similar Sanders, who had been projected to beryllium 1 of the archetypal players disconnected the board, had managed to autumn each the mode down to No. 144.

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, #2 of the Colorado Buffaloes, throws a walk during the archetypal fractional of the NCAAF crippled against the 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 the video ESPN enactment retired saying that. So I bash deliberation … was helium overrated arsenic a player? Yes, based connected the talents and the tools helium has arsenic a player, helium was not a apical 2 oregon 3 subordinate successful this draught class," helium said. "But past you get to the process portion of it. And the NFL volition humble anyone. 

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

Sanders volition person the quality to beryllium everyone incorrect with the Browns.

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

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