{"id":11641,"date":"2025-04-30T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/11641\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:17:26","slug":"browns-shedeur-sanders-accused-of-purposely-sabotaging-pre-draft-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/11641\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns&#8217; Shedeur Sanders Accused of Purposely Sabotaging Pre-Draft Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably the biggest story of the 2025 NFL draft was Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders falling all the way to Round 5 where he was picked by the Cleveland Browns two rounds after they took another QB \u2014 Oregon\u2019s Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>A few national analysts like ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SharpFootball\/status\/1915789532785524958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mel Kiper Jr.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mel Kiper Jr.<\/a> and Fox Sports\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1915557089201512553\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joel Klatt;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Joel Klatt<\/a> furiously defended Sanders, claiming the NFL was simply making an example out of him due to his famous father, Colorado head coach and Dallas Cowboys legend Deion Sanders, and his overly confident personality, which they said some often mistake for arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, others like Sports Illustrated\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlbertBreer\/status\/1915593785972531639\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Albert Breer argued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Albert Breer argued<\/a> that Sanders\u2019 draft slot was correctly on par with where NFL talent evaluators believed he should be.<\/p>\n<p>And now in the aftermath of all the speculation and conspiracy theories, several reports have emerged detailing troubling incidents that help Sanders\u2019 four-round draft fall make a lot more sense.<\/p>\n<p>The Ringer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/todd-mcshay-reveals-troubling-pre-162752929.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Todd McShay reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd McShay reported<\/a> over the weekend that Sanders rubbed New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll the wrong way during a pre-draft meeting in which the 23-year-old QB was called out for not being prepared.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A graphic announcing Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders\u2019 selection by the Cleveland Browns with the 144th overall pick is seen in the Draft Theater during the third day of the 2025 NFL draft.Tork Mason&amp;sol;USA Today Network via Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"614\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a5c37be75a1becbb316200b06ddfdfb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A graphic announcing Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders\u2019 selection by the Cleveland Browns with the 144th overall pick is seen in the Draft Theater during the third day of the 2025 NFL draft.Tork Mason&amp;sol;USA Today Network via Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>And now another concerning report has emerged from FS1\u2019s Colin Cowherd about Sanders\u2019 brash personality getting him into even more trouble, which likely led to teams shying away from him during the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point, one of the few teams that actually was interested in him said, \u2018Well, what do you make of this rally bad play?\u2019\u201d Cowherd said. \u201cAnd Shedeur said, \u2018Maybe I\u2019m not the guy for you.\u2019 That\u2019s not the answer since there were only three or four teams in the first round that were going to consider [drafting him] now that Pittsburgh apparently has a deal with Aaron Rodgers, so take them out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother moment \u2014 teams will install mistakes intentionally planted in the install, and they want you to catch it,\u201d Cowherd said. \u201cShedeur didn\u2019t, and the coach called him out, and once again, it didn\u2019t sit well. It\u2019s like bro, there\u2019s not that many teams needing quarterbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cowherd\u2019s report lines up with what a few anonymous NFL personnel said about Sanders after the combine when he was accused of being arrogant and not caring what certain NFL teams though of him.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It also seemingly reinforces what former NFL QB Boomer Esiason reported on Monday about many teams not even considering drafting Sanders because of his conceitedness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m telling you right now, and I know this after talking to three different personnel people in the NFL this weekend, they didn\u2019t even have him on their board,\u201d Esiason stated. \u201cThey took him off, and they took him off because the owner said, \u2018Take him off, I don\u2019t want that guy. I don\u2019t want this\u2026entitled person on our team,\u2019 and I don\u2019t blame them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/todd-mcshay-reveals-troubling-pre-162752929.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Details Emerge of Troubling Pre-Draft Incident Between Giants, Shedeur Sanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Details Emerge of Troubling Pre-Draft Incident Between Giants, Shedeur Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arguably the biggest story of the 2025 NFL draft was Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders falling all the way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[1586,86,85,54,2337,6405,564,257,11,1033,7,56,6,520,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-11641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-colin-cowherd","14":"tag-colorado","15":"tag-dallas-cowboys","16":"tag-deion-sanders","17":"tag-dillon-gabriel","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-new-york-giants","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114425223169536941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}