It’s been three weeks since the 2025 NFL draft ended but ESPN’s campaign to turn back time and make quarterback Shedeur Sanders a first-round pick is still going strong. Their latest opportunity to carry the water for Sanders came via ESPN First Take, thanks to Ryan Clark and Stephen A. Smith. And of course, they had to drag the Pittsburgh Steelers into it.
Clark even went so far as to say that, based on four rookie minicamp practices, he was right about Sanders and that the Steelers made a mistake passing on him in the first round. Four practices. In shorts. Basically against air. Clark practically sprained his wrist trying to pat himself on the back for nothing.
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Clark went on to say that even if Sanders had slid all the way to the seventh round, the Steelers wouldn’t have drafted him. He sounded very certain of this, but after being asked to elaborate multiple times, he refused to offer any reasoning behind such a strong declaration. The closest he got was to possibly infer that the team knows Aaron Rodgers was coming and said that Rodgers wouldn’t want to be the second-most-famous quarterback on the team. And he said it with a straight face.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: Former Steeler Ryan Clark calls out Steelers again for passing on Shedeur Sanders