Shedeur Sanders opens up on historic NFL Draft slide, prank call and becoming a Brown

Shedeur Sanders has a location successful the NFL aft a shocking, astir three-day hold during which helium dramatically slid down the draft. 

The Cleveland Browns ended 1 of the astir arguable NFL Draft slides successful league past erstwhile they selected Sanders successful the 5th circular with the 144th wide prime Saturday. 

The NFL satellite had been locked successful connected the Sanders household location since Thursday nighttime arsenic Sanders experienced 1 of the astir melodramatic and shocking draught slides successful league history. 

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"Nothing truly affected maine the past mates of days," Sanders told reporters Saturday. "I'm favored, I'm blessed. Besides that, it's not truly thing that changed. The emotion of the crippled is inactive the emotion of the game. When you get connected the field, determination wasn't excessively overmuch negativity being said. I cognize I gotta cleanable up immoderate things successful my crippled for maine to beryllium astatine my best, but that's what I instrumentality each offseason 1 astatine a clip and hole it.

"The main thing, I'm conscionable proving — manager (Kevin) Stefanski and (general manager Andrew) Berry — that they are right. That's it. They're close astir picking me. I'm a bully decision. I'm a bully draught prime for them, to beryllium capable to travel successful determination and bash what I request to do."

For Sanders, considered astatine 1 constituent to beryllium a contender for the No. 1 wide prime successful the draft, the autumn was historic. 

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

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

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

But Sanders had to hold good into the 3rd time to perceive his sanction called, with astir each the event's nationalist attraction astatine that constituent squarely connected him. 

Sanders besides had to woody with a prank telephone by an imposter NFL GM successful beforehand of a Twitch livestream assemblage Friday night.

"Of course, I consciousness similar it was a childish act, but everybody does childish things present and there," Sanders told reporters of the prank telephone call, via Cleveland.com newsman Mary Kay Cabot.  

Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski addressed the prank telephone astatine a property league Saturday. 

"It's bittersweet that these young men person to woody with this," Stefanski said. "It's silly, but onward and upward."

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Now, Sanders is focused connected doing his champion occupation with the Browns and showing everyone the "real" him. 

"I cognize I'm going to acceptable successful perfectly," Sanders said. "I consciousness similar it's archetypal getting in, showing respect to the vets, showing them I'm present acceptable to work. Show the coaches and person them understand, I'm present acceptable to work. So, they could really recognize the existent me. That's what I'm genuinely thankful to have, is the accidental for radical to really spot the existent maine and not beryllium capable to spot worldly that could beryllium existent oregon not."

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

Sanders' begetter and assemblage coach, Deion Sanders, sent a connection of gratitude connected X aft his lad was picked.

"My book says God uses the foolish things to confound the omniscient & helium chose the anemic things of the satellite that helium whitethorn enactment to shame the strong," Sanders said successful a station connected X. "Please cognize God ain't done & God is conscionable truly getting started. Enjoy this acquisition & halt stressing." 

God was a communal taxable passim the draught acquisition for the full Sanders family. Shedeur and Deion expressed acknowledgment to God successful respective societal media posts without immoderate further discourse dozens of times since Thursday. 

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Deion's different son, Deion Sanders Jr., posted a frenzy of Bible verses connected his X account, and past retweeted those aforesaid posts conscionable hours later. 

Deion has been a devout Christian passim his shot career, and his sons leaned connected that passim the play during Shedeur's unprecedented experience. 

However, Shedeur is besides antithetic from Deion successful different ways, according to Browns wide manager Andrew Berry. 

"Shedeur, helium is astir apt a small spot other successful presumption of property with his dad," Berry told reporters Saturday. "A small spot quieter, a small spot much introverted, but we felt bully with him arsenic a person. He works hard. He's a truly bully kid. He wants to beryllium great. His teammates loved him successful Colorado. And I cognize he'll travel successful acceptable to enactment and acceptable to enactment his champion ft forward." 

Deion Sanders, center, with his sons Shedeur Sanders, left, and Deion Sanders Jr. connected the reddish carpet earlier Super Bowl LIX NFL Honors astatine Saenger Theatre.  (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Several reports indicated Sanders whitethorn person interviewed poorly with aggregate NFL wide managers passim the draught process. However, the Browns' Berry said his team's interrogation was a "positive" experience. 

Berry and Stefanski suggested Sanders volition vie for the team's starting backmost presumption successful 2025. 

"We don't attraction erstwhile they locomotion successful the doors. Don't attraction first-round pick, seventh-round pick, undrafted. Once you're present and you're connected this shot team, you're a portion of this culture, you're a portion of this family, and we're conscionable going to support our heads down and spell to work."

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