{"id":256154,"date":"2025-08-02T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/256154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:45:12","slug":"shedeur-sanders-explains-attitude-that-turned-off-giants-saints-steelers-before-nfl-draft-after-historic-cu-career-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/256154\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders explains attitude that turned off Giants, Saints, Steelers before NFL draft after historic CU career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shedeur Sanders looked like a shoo-in to go in the top five of the 2025 NFL draft following a record-breaking career at the University of Colorado Boulder<\/a>. Instead, he fell to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft<\/a> in a historic shocker, and reports quickly followed that he was difficult to deal with in pre-draft meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the \u201cGrown QB\u201d explained to former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, Shedeur doesn\u2019t act differently for anyone.<\/p>\n

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Sanders is unapologetically himself all the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point in life, I don\u2019t think I would fake anything because there\u2019s no need. Everything is just genuinely how I am,\u201d Sanders said to Kosar<\/a> when asked about why he shows up early and stays late at practice.<\/p>\n

Certainly, no one thought Shedeur was playing an act when he got frustrated with New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll<\/a> for intentionally putting mistakes in the playbook install to test him. He was being himself when he allegedly had headphones in while talking to team personnel during meetings.<\/p>\n

No wonder the Giants, New Orleans Saints, and Pittsburgh Steelers passed on him despite having uncertainties at the QB position.<\/p>\n

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New York chose to roll the dice with Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston in free agency and drafted Ole Miss Rebels star Jaxson Dart instead. New Orleans made one of the 2025 draft\u2019s most puzzling selections, taking Tyler Shough in the second round, feeling Sanders was the bigger gamble despite Shough bouncing around three different Power 4 programs in seven collegiate seasons. Pittsburgh decided to play it safe by taking Ohio State Buckeyes CFP title-winning signal-caller Will Howard in the sixth round as they waited on a free agent decision from Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n

Sanders\u2019 attitude, not anything Coach Prime did<\/a>, led to his stock tanking.<\/p>\n

Luckily, it appears to be the one thing that could save him, as he\u2019s been impressive against the first-team defense<\/a> this past week in Browns training camp and looks primed to prove his skills can do the talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders looked like a shoo-in to go in the top five of the 2025 NFL draft following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,1586,22546,200,54,7,1801,13,896,55,56,6,15,57,572,17,283,4234,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-256154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-aaron-rodgers","10":"tag-bernie-kosar","11":"tag-brian-daboll","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jameis-winston","15":"tag-jaxson-dart","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-saints","18":"tag-new-york-giants","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-draft","21":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","22":"tag-russell-wilson","23":"tag-shedeur-sanders","24":"tag-tyler-shough","25":"tag-university-of-colorado-boulder","26":"tag-will-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114959713949039839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256154","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=256154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}