{"id":213595,"date":"2025-07-17T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/213595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:04:11","slug":"colorado-buffaloes-football-coach-deion-sanders-browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-draw-major-accusation-during-the-espys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/213595\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders, Browns QB Shedeur Sanders draw major accusation during the ESPYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders and his son, Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, caught a stray during the 2025 ESPYS<\/a> for the pair\u2019s supposed display of nepotism in Boulder over the last few years.<\/p>\n

ESPYS host Shane Gillis took an on-the-nose, punchline-less jab at the two, incorrectly listing Shedeur\u2019s record with the Buffs and sardonically and rhetorically asking if it wasn\u2019t nepotism that resulted in the \u201cGrown QB\u201d getting his number at CU retired in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShedeur Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it\u2019s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it\u2019s not. It\u2019s because he went 13-12 over his career, and he almost won the Alamo Bowl,\u201d Gillis prefaced before asking, \u201cDefinitely not nepotism, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

As USA Today\u2019s Brent Schrotenboer<\/a> pointed out, Sanders is considered the best QB the University of Colorado Boulder has ever seen. However, his number being retired before championship-winning signal-caller Darian Hagan is controversial.<\/p>\n

\u201cShedeur Sanders, now with the Cleveland Browns, actually went 13-11 as starting quarterback at Colorado across the 2023 and 2024 seasons while playing for his father Deion, Colorado\u2019s head coach. But he is considered possibly the best quarterback in school history after breaking over 100 school records and reviving a program that went 1-11 in 2022, the season before he arrived,\u201d Schrotenboer wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to retire his jersey number still was controversial, partly because it came less than four months after his last college game in the Alamo Bowl against BYU, which he lost, 36-14.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe decision also seemed to overlook other all-time Colorado greats, especially former Colorado quarterback Darian Hagan, who led Colorado to the national championship in 1990 and had a 28-5-2 record as QB. By contrast, Hagan\u2019s jersey number never was retired by Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagan shared dismay<\/a> at CU\u2019s decision to retire Sanders and Travis Hunter\u2019s numbers before his.<\/p>\n

Gillis just brought the issue back into the limelight, leading to Schrotenboer putting Hagan into the spotlight in the ESPYS\u2019 immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n

In an extremely roundabout way, the joke was a win for everyone involved. You know \u201cPrime Time\u201d is happy for the mention, even if it didn\u2019t have the purest of intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders and his son, Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, caught a stray during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[44753,86,85,54,2337,564,792,44752,11,41790,7,7710,44754,6,38375,17,128,4234],"class_list":{"0":"post-213595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-brent-schrotenboer","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-colorado","14":"tag-colorado-buffaloes-football","15":"tag-darian-hagan","16":"tag-deion-sanders","17":"tag-espys","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-jersey-number","20":"tag-nepotism","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-shane-gillis","23":"tag-shedeur-sanders","24":"tag-travis-hunter","25":"tag-university-of-colorado-boulder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114867304502144396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213595","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=213595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}