{"id":320918,"date":"2025-08-27T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/320918\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:51:12","slug":"deion-sanders-praying-his-son-shilo-gets-another-nfl-opportunity-after-buccaneers-waiver-preseason-ejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/320918\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders ‘praying’ his son Shilo gets another NFL opportunity after Buccaneers waiver, preseason ejection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shilo Sanders is a man without an NFL team, for a very well-known reason at this point. His father Deion Sanders says his son is going to be just fine.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters Tuesday<\/a>, the Colorado head coach said he was “praying” that another team will pick up Shilo in the wake of his waiver by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, adding that the 25-year-old will be fine either way:<\/p>\n

“I’m proud of my kids, all of them. I prepared my kids for any and everything that could possibly happen in life and in sports. That’s part of fathering, that’s part of parenting, that’s part of having a relationship. So, he is mentally where he needs to be, physically where he needs to be.<\/p>\n

“We’re praying that he gets another opportunity to go with a team. But if he doesn’t, the plans have already been put forward to what he’s going to do next. Shilo’s a man of many talents and he’s going to be straight. All of the Sanders are going to be straight, with or without football. You better believe that.”<\/p>\n

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The younger Sanders made the bad kind of headlines Saturday when he was ejected from the Bucs’ preseason finale for taking a swing at Buffalo Bills tight end Zach Davidson<\/a>. Davidson blocked Sanders through the end of the play, which led to Sanders winding up and smacking his opponent in the helmet.<\/p>\n

Sanders entered the game already on the roster bubble after going unselected in the 2025 NFL Draft. A spot on the Bucs’ 53-man roster appeared to be a long shot given his fall out of the draft wasn’t a surprise \u2014 at least compared to his brother Shedeur’s fifth-round selection \u2014 but Sanders’ ejection likely made the decision easy.<\/p>\n

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Buccaneers head coach Toddy Bowles was frank about his thoughts on the incident after the game:<\/p>\n

“You can’t throw punches in this league. I mean, that’s inexcusable. They’re gonna get you every time. Gotta grow from that.”<\/p>\n

Sanders will now have to do that growth with a different team, unless Tampa Bay signs him to its practice squad. With Sanders on waivers, any NFL team can put in a claim for him until Wednesday afternoon. If he goes unclaimed, he will be a free agent and will likely need to join a team’s practice squad to remain in the league.<\/p>\n

This is all happening with the 25-year-old in a unique financial position, as he’s going through a personal bankruptcy case in the wake of an $11 million legal judgement<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shilo Sanders is a man without an NFL team, for a very well-known reason at this point. His…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,11,7,6,139,2715,704,250,4122,18062],"class_list":{"0":"post-320918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-deion-sanders","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-shedeur","13":"tag-shilo-sanders","14":"tag-tampa-bay","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-yahoo-fantasy-football-league","17":"tag-zach-davidson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115099171828946924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320918","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=320918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}