Deion Sanders Believes Teams were Lying about Shedeur

Back in December, Deion Sanders called it a “fact” that Shedeur Sanders was going to be the no. 1 pick in the draft.

At the time, Deion believed the New York Giants were going to draft Shedeur, but he was confident Shedeur would be the no. 1 pick regardless of who owned the pick.

Six months later, every team the league passed on Shedeur until the Cleveland Browns took him in the fifth round and there’s reason to believe the head coach and GM in Cleveland weren’t entirely on board with the decision.

Nevertheless, Deion still believes Shedeur’s fall to the fifth round of the draft had nothing to do with his son’s interviews, adding that false narratives were created and attached to his kids who had “never done nothing wrong.”

In a recent appearance on Asante Samuel’s Say What Needs To Be Said podcast, Deion talked about what it felt like to see fake narratives created about Shedeur.

“It hurt,” Deion said. “But the Bible says God uses the foolish things to confound the wise.”

“There was some foolish stuff that went on, but that gave them something that they needed… That edge that Tom [Brady] had, it gave them the edge that you had, it gave them the edge that I have. Folks said we weren’t going to be nothing. But we had to prove that. It gave them the edge that they needed. Both of them.”

Deion added that Shedeur was prepared for every interview as part of the pre-draft process and didn’t blow off any meetings with teams.

“When you sit up there and say something like he went into a meeting unprepared, like, dude,” Deion said. “Shedeur Sanders? Who has had six different coordinators, who has still functioned and leveled up every time we brought somebody new in, and you’re going to tell me he was unprepared? You’re going to tell me he had on headphones? Anybody who knows my son understands he’s a professional. He’s going to go into a meeting with headphones on? Y’all, come on now.”

“You got to understand my kids are built for everything,” Deion continued. “We had two TV shows, we had shows in high school with playing football junior and senior years. We’ve always been in front of the camera, so they know how to navigate, they know how to handle themselves. You’re not going to catch them in no foolery or no mess. You’re not going to do that whatsoever.”

Regardless of what Deion says publicly or feels privately, the fact that Tom Brady’s Raiders didn’t draft Shedeur was a major red flag.

Like every other team in the league, the Raiders passed repeatedly on Shedeur, but considering Brady’s relationship with the Sanders family, there is clearly a dynamic with Shedeur that NFL teams aren’t comfortable with.

Unfortunately for Shedeur, the Browns aren’t an ideal situation to be plugged into as a rookie (or even a veteran for that matter) and that was something Deion seemed to be aware of ahead of the draft.

Just a guess here… but if the first chapter of Shedeur’s NFL career doesn’t go according to plan (i.e. the Cleveland experiment turns into disaster), there’s a good chance the second chapter of his career will include his father in some capacity.

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