As the truth begins to trickle out, we’re learning why Shedeur Sanders really slid down the NFL Draft. We’re also finding out exactly which teams Deion Sanders wanted to select his son, and to not select him.

This week various reports indicated that the polarizing Colorado quarterback fell all the way to the fifth – and past the New York Giants multiple times – not because of racism, collusion or average athleticism. It was – surprise – his entitled attitude, arrogance and woeful unpreparedness in face-to-face meetings.

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At least that was the reason for the Giants.

We entered last week’s draft believing the Giants might pick Sanders at No. 3 overall or even trade up to No. 2 in order to nab him. But he fell, fell and fell some more, all the way down until the Cleveland Browns ended his public humiliation with the 144th overall pick.

According to ESPN’s Todd McShay, the Giants dropped Shedeur after a botched pre-draft meeting in New York. On his McShay Show podcast, he reports that Sanders was unprepared for an offensive install with head coach Brian Daboll and when he was questioned he got into a heated exchange.

“Shedeur didn’t have a great interview with Brian Daboll in a private visit,” McShay said. “An install package came in. Preparation wasn’t there for it. Got called out on it. Didn’t like that. Brian didn’t appreciate him not liking it.”

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While Daboll dodged questions about the tense interview, Yahoo NFL reporter Charles Robinson also now says on the Inside Coverage podcast that Shedeur “rubbed teams the wrong way” and left an unfavorable impression on several executives and coaches. Before the draft, reports surfaced about Shedeur being considered “entitled” and “arrogant” in private interviews.

The quarterback didn’t participate in the Scouting Combine, and opted to skip the draft in Green Bay to instead throw himself a lavish party at the family’s home an hour east of Dallas at which rooms were decorated with the word “Legendary” and dollar bill signs.

Former NFL quarterback and TV analyst Boomer Esiason is adding to the puzzle, saying on his New York radio show that Shedeur’s self-confidence crossed the line over into un-coachable cockiness. Esiason, in fact, claims he talked to personnel people on three NFL teams that dropped Shedeur entirely from their draft boards.

“He’s very high on himself, and I think he’s very off-putting to many, many coaches and general managers in the league,” Esiason said. They took him off, and they took him off because the owner said, ‘Take him off, I don’t want that guy. I don’t want this . . . entitled person on our team,’ and I don’t blame them.”

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If you believe Deion – at your own peril, of course – it was a blessing that the Giants passed on Shedeur and that it was the Browns who drafted him. Wrote Deion on his social media in response to a fan asking his thoughts about Shedeur going to Cleveland, he wrote:

“God is good.”

But in a March interview that surfaced this week, he emphatically said that he wanted – and was steadfastly praying for – his son to be drafted by not the Browns but rather the Giants.

As a keynote speaker at the March 19 conference, Deion was asked by an interview moderator what team he wanted to draft Shedeur.

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Interviewer: “Cleveland?”

Deion: “What’d you say?”

Interviewer: “Cleveland?”

Deion: Chuckles (The entire audience then laughs with him)

Deion: “We are praying for the Giants right now. Yes we are.”

Oops.