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After two seasons and more than 900 ing attempts at the University of Colorado, Shedeur Sanders is headed to the NFL...but which team is going to draft him?
With a little less than two months to go until the 2025 NFL Draft, Sanders' destination remains unclear amidst a fluid draft board that could change every day until the first round begins from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Shedeur, whose father and coach at Colorado is none other than the great Deion Sanders, might be getting closer and closer toheading west for the start of his NFL career, to a place that has a need for him and a draft slot that could be just right.
Raiders, Tom Brady closing in on Shedeur choice
The Las Vegas Raiders, part-owned by NFL legend Tom Brady, are in an intriguing spot at #6 overall and have long been linked with Shedeur Sanders. And it is through the seven-time Super Bowl champion Brady's influence that the Raiders could get their man on April 24.
"People tell me that they do not believe the New York Giants would select (Shedeur) with the third pick, and the very earliest he'll come off the board is the Raiders, who own the sixth selection," Sportskeeda's NFL insider Tony Pauline wrote on Sunday.
While the sixth overall pick is lower than earlier projections that had Sanders going anywhere in the top three, it makes sense for Shedeur to end up in Las Vegas given the Raiders' intense need for a franchise quarterback. Amidst another franchise reset under head coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Spytek, it is doubtlessly clear to Vegas that it needs a long-term solution behind center.
However, according to Pauline, teams continue to sour on Shedeur, to the point where the Raiders selecting him sixth overall might be regarded as a "reach". And for a franchise with high-profile failures at quarterback -- such as using a #1 overall pick on JaMarcus Russell -- the pressure to get this choice right is immense.
"Teams are cooling on Shedeur Sanders for a number of reasons," Pauline wrote. "The first being that Sanders showed little to no improvement in his game last season and made some poor choices. The Colorado quarterback chose not to throw at the combine, which is not unusual at all for a top-rated signal-caller. Yet this comes off the Shrine Bowl where Sanders was expected to at least participate in the individual ing drills, yet he showed up on the field for just the first day of practice, making a brief visit dressed in sweats."