{"id":43674,"date":"2025-05-12T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/43674\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:55:08","slug":"steelers-failed-to-reach-consensus-on-drafting-shedeur-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/43674\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers failed to reach consensus on drafting Shedeur Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steelers<\/a>, like other QB-needy teams, shocked the NFL world when they passed on selecting Shedeur Sanders not once, not twice \u2014 but on three separate occasions. According to one insider, there was a surprising reason why Sanders isn\u2019t calling the Steel City home.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Fowler<\/a>, a prominent and long-time ESPN insider, explained that a disagreement within Pittsburgh\u2019s draft war room is ultimately why the Steelers chose to pass on drafting Sanders:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Steelers were comfortable with Shedeur Sanders as a distributing point guard type, which makes it a mild surprise they didn’t take him with their fourth-round pick. To borrow another basketball analogy, those inside the Steelers’ building did not reach a consensus on Sanders as a slam dunk pick. But the debate was close enough to justify taking him.\u201d<\/p>\n

This lack of \u201cconsensus\u201d is surprising, as HC Mike Tomlin spoke very highly of Sanders during the pre-draft process \u2014 but one could argue that selecting Jack Sawyer in Round 4 was more valuable to the Steelers than the baggage that came with drafting the Colorado Buffaloes<\/a> QB prospect.<\/p>\n

Will the Steelers regret letting Sanders fall to the Browns in Round 5 \u2014 or will the young QB’s attitude prove that Cleveland made a mistake the other 31 NFL teams were wise to avoid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers, like other QB-needy teams, shocked the NFL world when they passed on selecting Shedeur Sanders not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[204,80,247,265,788,564,792,19,12,388,7,379,1458,1255,248,267,330,88,6,15,245,338,520,57,140,139,17,9,266,426,1459],"class_list":{"0":"post-43674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-buffaloes","13":"tag-colorado","14":"tag-colorado-buffaloes-football","15":"tag-draft","16":"tag-espn","17":"tag-espn-inc","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-inc","20":"tag-mike","21":"tag-mike-tomlin","22":"tag-national","23":"tag-national-sports","24":"tag-negative","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-nfl-draft","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-negative","30":"tag-pittsburgh","31":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","32":"tag-sanders","33":"tag-shedeur","34":"tag-shedeur-sanders","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-steelers","38":"tag-tomlin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114493792166661136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43674","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=43674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}