Are Shedeur Sanders and the Raiders on a collision course to be united in the draft?
Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter said last week that he believes Sanders would be the Raiders pick if the draft happened today, but there are a few newer talking points around Sanders that may or may not have implications on the draft.
Is Shedeur tweeting about the Raiders [almost] every week?
There has been a lot of discussion around Sanders tweeting “Thank you GOD” after just about every Raiders loss since the beginning of the season.
Is he hinting that the Raiders are the team he wants to play for or are his tweets related to something else?
Barstool Sports personality Eric Sollenberger, better known as PFT Commenter, went back and tracked Shedeur’s tweets, and he feels like there might be too many coincidences to ignore.
“After every [Raiders] loss, Shedeur Sanders tweets ‘Thank you GOD,'” Sollenberger said.
“Now I don’t know if this is intentional or not on his part because I saw the meme going around earlier this week, so I kept my eyeball on it,” he continued. “After this game, I noticed that he did immediately tweet ‘Thank you GOD.'”
“So I went back and I looked at every single week that the Raiders have played this season, and he has done it after every Raiders loss, except he didn’t do it at all week one and week two. So this boils down to the fact that Shedeur has been posting every Sunday except for September 29th since week three. It has tracked so far, but the thing is the Raiders just haven’t won very many games. The only week he has missed doing it have been during Raiders wins.”
Yahoo and FOX Sports host Jason Fitz identified two teams that would probably draft Sanders ahead of the Raiders if they are in position.
Tom Brady and company won’t be the only ones [probably] chasing Sanders in the draft.
For Raider fans hoping Sanders will be wearing silver and black next year, Fitz said there are two teams to keep an eye on potentially jumping ahead of Las Vegas in the draft to take him…
“You better hope that the Titans win both of those games [against the Jaguars] because the Jaguars are not in the market for a quarterback. But I have now talked to a handful of people around the Tennessee Titans [and] the Tennessee Titans will take Shedeur if he’s there. I believe that in my heart,” Fitz said on Raider Nation Radio’s The Morning Tailgate. So if your hope is Shedeur or Cam Ward [will end up with the Raiders], you better have a higher draft pick than the Tennessee Titans and the New York Giants.”
“Those two quarterbacks are going to go to those two teams in some order, some way. And right now, as the draft ‘tankathon’ will point out, both of those teams pick ahead of the Raiders. I was doomsday last year and everybody hated me for it, but I’ll be doomsday again this year. I am not sure, unless the Raiders can absolutely secure a top two pick in this year’s draft, that they will actually have access to either of those two quarterbacks. That being said, I don’t think in any normal draft, those two quarterbacks would or should go one and two.”
As of today, the Raiders own the fifth pick, but at least two teams ahead of them in the draft are already in tank mode.
This is current NFL draft order according to Tankathon…
Another team to watch for Sanders could be… the Dallas Cowboys?
When it comes to Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones, you never say never. And on Tuesday, former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin essentially told the world that Deion Sanders would take the Cowboys’ head coaching job if it were offered to him.
Asked by Colin Cowherd if Deion would accept the Cowboys’ head coaching job if Shedeur was drafted by Dallas, Irvin’s response was emphatic…
“I believe 100 percent, and I can tell you good sources have told me that,” Irvin said with a laugh. “Great sources have told me that. That’s all I can say like that without violating anything else.”
Irvin is clearly suggesting Deion is his source.
The biggest takeaway from Irvin’s comments might not be that Deion would take the Cowboys’ job.
The biggest takeaway might be the fact (we assume it’s a fact considering the confidence Irvin showed in his statement) that Deion is open to the idea of moving to the NFL with his son.
Is there a team that would be willing to sign the elder Sanders in an effort to secure Shedeur?
Probably not, but we at least know where Deion’s mindset is on the matter.
Earlier this year, Deion said a similar scenario to what happened with Eli Manning in 2004 could play out with Shedeur.
“I know where I kind of want them to go,” Deion said in March about Shedeur and teammate Travis Hunter. “And let’s not forget Shilo [Sanders]. But I know where I want them to go. There’s certain cities where it ain’t going to happen… It’s going to be an Eli [Manning].”
Sanders is also on record saying he would like Shedeur to play in Las Vegas.
“That would be nice,” Sanders said in July about the possibility of Shedeur playing for the Raiders.
“[The Raiders] have a wonderful head coach and a wonderful president,” Sanders continued. “That would be nice. I’ve been looking around the stadium. It’s a nice stadium. It’s nice around here.”
Sanders also added that he was a big fan of Antonio Pierce.
“He’s a great man,” he said of Pierce. “He’s a great leader. He earned the job. They didn’t give him nothing. I love what he brings to the table. I don’t want him to lose to the point where he has the ability to get Shedeur. Let’s get that straight. I don’t want that to happen, but I wouldn’t mind some of kind of way it happens that he’s here.”
x: @raidersbeat
How about we trade the 1st rd draft pick. To Atl for Michael Penix jr. or Detroit for Hendon Hooker.
He will bury the franchise for good. STOP with this garbage
Hondo Carpenter is unreliable source.
This article is a waste of time