For months, Shedeur Sanders was viewed as the face of the 2025 NFL Draft class — a potential top-10 pick with a famous father and two years of high-level production at Colorado. Even when it became clear that Cam Ward would go No.

The NFL Draft always finds a way to be quarterback dominant, even when the quarterback group isn’t very strong. Because of Shedeur Sanders’ fall, football fans received three consecutive days of Shedeur debate.

"The intel I got was shocking: 'This guy has no awareness about how he's coming across,' or the type of leverage he has or doesn't have," a former NFL quarterbacks coach told Bruce Feldman of The Athletic. There has also been ample reporting that Sanders didn't interview well with a number of teams: