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The NFL Draft did not go the way that Shedeur Sanders, Deion Sanders or anyone else in the Sanders family expected it to. After being projected as a first-round pick, Shedeur Sanders fell to the fifth round of the NFL Draft, before finally being selected by the Cleveland Browns. Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter recently spoke on the Fully Loaded podcast and said that Shedeur Sanders and Deion Sanders were largely to blame for the slide.
“Shedeur and his family, they overplayed their hand,” Cris Carter said. “Them thinking that he was in the same evaluation mode as Eli Manning, they didn’t play that right. Them trying to narrow the teams that he was going to go to, that didn’t do right.
Not working out at the combine, that wasn’t the right thing. “His interview process, obviously could’ve done a lot better in that. .
.. He doesn’t have a big-time arm, he’s not a big guy.
He’s not overly athletic. So his measurables are not first-round measurables." Carter went on to acknowledge that Shedeur Sanders is a talented quarterback, but he also pointed out that it takes more than talent to be a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
“You don’t play football all the time. You’re a human being the rest of the time,” Carter said. “And how you’re going to be in the locker room, how he already came up with this line of merchandise, “Legendary.
” Like he’s already calling himself legendary. All those things are problems." ESPN personality Stephen A.
Smith blamed “collusion” for Sanders falling in the draft, stating that NFL owners agreed not to take him early on. Carter doesn’t see that theory as a possibility. “The No.
1 thing that didn’t happen was there was not a collusion message with the NFL owners,” Carter said. “Because they wouldn’t be able to keep a secret like that. .
.. Every owner’s very, very selfish.
Now why would I do something to my detriment?" Instead, Carter believes that Shedeur Sanders and Deion Sanders hurt themselves with their actions. That includes Shedeur asking eventual No. 1 pick Cam Ward to appear in a rap video with him during the pre-draft process.
“They taught him a great lesson, like, you don’t have this figured out. Your dad don’t have this figured out,” Carter said. “You’re going for a job interview, so this job interview, he was so concerned about what his outfit was, his necklace was over $100,000.
Like he hadn’t even convinced people that you’re the face of our franchise. Matter of fact, he had convinced people that they were better off going in a different direction, even with people who had lesser talent. That’s the rub he put on the people.
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