{"id":30177,"date":"2025-05-07T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/30177\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:50:09","slug":"tom-brady-encouraged-shedeur-sanders-after-his-2025-nfl-draft-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/30177\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady encouraged Shedeur Sanders after his 2025 NFL Draft slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Brady says he texted Shedeur Sanders after he slipped to Round 5: \u201cDay 2 matters more than the NFL Draft. I was 199. Who can speak on it better than me? Use it as motivation. You\u2019re gonna get your chances. Go take advantage of it.\u201d \ud83d\udc10<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impaulsive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@impaulsive<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkfXx92VPU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QkfXx92VPU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1919905882025906225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/pop-culture\/2025\/04\/30\/ben-affleck-tom-brady-new-heights-travis-kelce-jason\/83364252007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/pop-culture\/2025\/04\/30\/ben-affleck-tom-brady-new-heights-travis-kelce-jason\/83364252007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady<\/a> knows what it&#8217;s like to wait your turn in the NFL Draft, and he sent some encouragement <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/04\/30\/shedeur-sanders-rookie-of-the-year-bad-omen\/83365441007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/04\/30\/shedeur-sanders-rookie-of-the-year-bad-omen\/83365441007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a>&#8216; way after <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/05\/06\/colorado-fan-files-incredibly-stupid-lawsuit-shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide\/83479213007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/05\/06\/colorado-fan-files-incredibly-stupid-lawsuit-shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide\/83479213007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">his 2025 NFL Draft slide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/04\/26\/shedeur-sanders-gives-the-browns-the-nfls-strangest-quarterback-room\/83297296007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/04\/26\/shedeur-sanders-gives-the-browns-the-nfls-strangest-quarterback-room\/83297296007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sanders eventually landed in the fifth round with the Cleveland <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Browns<\/a> last month, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielOyefusi\/status\/1919777916549755280\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielOyefusi\/status\/1919777916549755280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he dedicated his rookie number to Brady with the No 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the recent IMPAULSIVE podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1919905882025906225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1919905882025906225%7Ctwgr%5E24cd684c697059d0082e3cad08e89c92582a07ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpresto-suite.gannettdigital.com%2Fquick-view%2F83486949007%3Fauth%3DfalseassetKey%3Dabd51a32-4e9d-4e06-bf67-f3e226a2aca1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1919905882025906225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1919905882025906225%7Ctwgr%5E24cd684c697059d0082e3cad08e89c92582a07ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpresto-suite.gannettdigital.com%2Fquick-view%2F83486949007%3Fauth%3DfalseassetKey%3Dabd51a32-4e9d-4e06-bf67-f3e226a2aca1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brady explained<\/a> how he reached out to Sanders to offer him some words of wisdom and support after his surprise draft drop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDay 2 matters more than the draft,&#8221; Brady said on the show. &#8220;I was 199. So, who can speak on it better than me, like what that really means. Use it as motivation. You\u2019re gonna get your chances. Go take advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some NSFW language to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about Brady, but this was a classy move from the goat about a situation he knows all too well.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady says he texted Shedeur Sanders after he slipped to Round 5: \u201cDay 2 matters more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1364,86,85,54,7,6,140,139,17,1363,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-30177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-brady","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sanders","15":"tag-shedeur","16":"tag-shedeur-sanders","17":"tag-tom","18":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177","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=30177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}