Shedeur Sanders prank-called during NFL Draft slide by imposter: 'Have to wait a little longer'

The affectional roller coaster for Shedeur Sanders plunged adjacent harder during the 2nd time of the NFL Draft. 

After falling to the 3rd circular and getting passed connected successful favour of 2 different quarterbacks projected to spell overmuch aboriginal than Sanders, helium fell unfortunate to an ill-timed prank telephone portion the satellite watched. 

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. 

The 23-year-old backmost had a large grin connected his look arsenic helium answered and greeted the caller, with friends and household crowding astir him. 

"I'm good, been waiting connected you," helium said. 

But the imposter connected the different broadside told the anxious young jock that helium would "have to hold a small longer," arsenic Sanders' grin rapidly faded.

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Shedeur Sanders, the lad of US shot prima Deion Sanders, presents a instauration for the Louis Vuitton Menswear Ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2024/2025 postulation arsenic portion of the Paris Fashion Week, successful Paris connected January 16, 2024.  (ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)

After the telephone ended, the assemblage astir Sanders broke retired into acrophobic conversation, arsenic helium glared astatine his phone. 

Sanders has since ended his Twitch stream. 

Sanders' draught descent has been the biggest and astir arguable storyline of this year's draft. 

After chap backmost Cam Ward retired of Miami was selected with the archetypal wide prime connected Thursday, experts assumed Sanders would travel soon aft arsenic the 2nd backmost taken. But instead, Jaxson Dart was taken by the Giants precocious successful the archetypal circular Tyler Shough was taken by the Saints aboriginal successful the second. 

Both Dart and Shough were projected to spell overmuch aboriginal than Sanders by scouts and analysts.

At 1 constituent during the quarterback's descent connected Thursday, his different brother, NFL information imaginable Shilo Sanders, insisted "something is going on" with Shedeur not being selected, arsenic seen successful footage posted by their different brother, Deion Sanders Jr.

"Bro, if they don't instrumentality you close now, it's thing going on," Shilo said. "If they don't instrumentality him close now, it's thing going on. I don't cognize what's going on, but it's something."

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In further footage posted by Deion Jr. Thursday night, Shedeur addressed not being taken successful a code to his household erstwhile the archetypal nighttime of the draught was over.

"We each didn't expect this, of course, but I consciousness similar with God, thing possible, everything possible. I don't consciousness similar this happened for nary reason. All of this is, of course, substance to the fire. Under nary circumstances did we each cognize this was going to happen, but we recognize we connected to bigger and amended things," the backmost said. 

"Tomorrow's the day. We going to beryllium blessed regardless. Legendary."

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.

"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!"

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman joined the statement Friday, suggesting Sanders slid due to the fact that "America continues to fearfulness beardown achromatic men."

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"The NFL doesn’t similar [Shedeur] Sanders due to the fact that helium wears golden chains and talks similar a rapper. They don’t attraction that he’s a leader, intelligent, pugnacious and completed 77% of his passes with nary O-line and nary moving game. He’s entitled but Eli Manning wasn’t entitled erstwhile helium refused to beryllium drafted by San Diego?" Bowman wrote connected X. 

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