Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders didn’t exactly put up impressive numbers as a rookie.
The former Colorado star threw for 175 yards per game during the 2025 season, finishing with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in his first year in the NFL.
Despite that, legendary NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham is a big believer in Sanders and feels that he has a bright future in the National Football League.
“Love him,” Randall Cunningham said recently on the All The Smoke podcast. “The treatment and everything he’s going through, whew, that’s a lot. And I was so happy he got that victory against the Raiders here in Vegas. But I like him, I love that kid. And I’ve never met him before, but I love him.”
Cunningham has not met Shedeur Sanders, but he is friends with his father, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
Still, Cunningham insists that being a fan of Shedeur’s game has nothing to do with Deion.
“I watch him, and he really wants to stay calm. He really wants to get through everything. And he doesn’t come off as arrogant or ‘I’m all that,’” Cunningham said. “He is all of that. And I’m telling you, once he gets a real opportunity and has all the weapons around him and a defense and everything and they just say, ‘Hey, OK, we’re just going to go with you,’ you’re going to see the same kid you saw in college. The most dynamic player playing quarterback. The kid is good. He’s really good.”
Cunningham added that Shedeur Sanders receives unfair criticism because he is Deion’s son, but he likes the way Shedeur has handled it.
“There’s a stigma of being a Sanders and the Prime Time and all of that. And I think that that kind of overshadows who he is. Because he’s a great kid,” Cunningham said. “I watch his interviews and I’m like, ‘Man, I wish I was wise like that when I first got in there.’”