Shilo Sanders’ preseason ended in a way you never want to see from a rookie fighting for a roster spot.<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety was ejected from their preseason finale against Buffalo on Saturday for taking a swing at Bills tight end Zach Davidson after a play. The pair got into it after Davidson blocked Sanders through the end of the play, with Sanders slapping Davidson’s helmet while an official stood right by him.<\/p>\n
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The son of Deion Sanders and older brother of Shedeur Sanders was quickly hit with an unnecessary roughness penalty and disqualified from the game. The 6-foot-7, 251-pound Davidson celebrated by hitting the 6-foot Sanders with the “too small” gesture as he argued with the official.<\/p>\n
Another angle of the incident<\/a> showed Davidson had his fingers inside Sanders’ facemask as they tussled, and that Sanders hit Davidson’s helmet with an open hand.<\/p>\n The incident won’t help Sanders in his quest to make the Buccaneers, as he entered the game listed as a third-stringer on the Bucs’ unofficial depth chart<\/a>. Bucs head coach Todd Bowles stressed how important Saturday would be for his chances before the game<\/a>:<\/p>\n “Shilo’s very aggressive, very young, very hungry. He can make plays in the box and we know he can run down and give us 100% on special teams, so this last week is going to be very important for those guys to show up,” Bowles said.<\/p>\n Sanders went undrafted in the 2025 NFL Draft after two years at Colorado playing for his father. He was previously second-team All-SWAC during his family’s time with Jackson State.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season<\/a>]<\/p>\n The 25-year-old is in a unique position this preseason, as he’s working for an NFL roster spot amid an $11 million judgement and a personal bankruptcy case<\/a>. Sanders filed for bankruptcy in 2023 in an attempt to erase a debt he owes to a former security guard he was accused of attacking in high school, who took him to court and won via a default judgement. It remains to be seen whether he will be forced to pay out that eight-figure sum.<\/p>\n Both Sanders and his brother Shedeur, a fifth-round draft pick on the Cleveland Browns, have been drawing attention this preseason, with Shedeur part of a crowded quarterbacks room in Cleveland. Shedeur’s first preseason game went well, but he struggled in a game earlier Saturday<\/a> that could leave him as the fourth QB on the depth chart, behind Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n