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The first Round of the NFL 2025 draft brought its fair part of surprises, but the Plumet of Sheduer Sanders was possibly the most significant event of the night.
On Friday, Sanders saga was surprisingly transformed to effectively inexplicable.
Each team, including the franchises that entered this year’s draft with interrogation signs in the Quarterback position, approved selecting former Colorado Field Marshal in the first, second or third round. Since Thursday, many figures in the world of sport and beyond have shared thoughts about why Sanders fell on the Draft boards.
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Shedeur Sanders analyzes his Jersey retirement ceremony during the NCAA American football spring game of Colorado, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Pete Thamel de ESPN is among that group. According to Thamel’s conversations with several teams, Sanders’ free fall could be attributed greatly to the evaluation of his talent.
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“I spoke with approximately half a dozen teams today … They simply thought it was not a first round talent and a first round player,” Thamel said Friday.
Pete Thamel attends the eleventh annual part Allstate Party in the playoff in Pullman Yards on January 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images)
Thamel added that some teams questioned the general athletics of Sanders.
“They wanted to see him more throwing rhythm. They wanted to see him show a little more athletics. He is considered a mediocre athlete who did not have enough film that thought he immediately translated.”
November 29, 2024; Boulder, Colorado: the field marshal of the Colorado Buffaloes, Shedeur Sanders (2), performs a walk in the first quarter against the Cowboys of the state of Oklahoma in Folsom Field. (Ron Chenoy-Imagn images)
While the second round of Friday came and left without the name of Sanders getting out of the board, the NFL teams that avoid the field marshal position in the first part of the two two have been a trend in recent years.
Only a quarterback has been selected in the second round of the NFL draft since 2023, Thamel added.
Sanders remained available once the fourth round concluded on Saturday afternoon.
Sanders ended the 2024 season with 4,134 air yards. He is the son of the member of the Hall of Fame Pro Football and the coach of Football of Colorado Deion Sanders.
