Shedeur Sanders is crossing his T’s and dotting his I’s because the 2025 NFL Draft approaches.
In a considerably stunning transfer, the Colorado quarterback and long-assumed top-five draft choose is assembly with the Steelers on Thursday, the Pittsburgh Publish Gazette stories.
The Steelers, who maintain the No. 21 choose within the draft, would profile as a group nicely out of vary to pick the extensively anticipated high draft choose.
Or are they?
Sanders is probably essentially the most divisive participant coming into the April 24 draft, and there’s loads of uncertainty about the place he’ll really be chosen.
He was lengthy anticipated to be the apple of the Giants’ eye at No. 3, though Huge Blue added Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston to the fold in free company, including to hypothesis that they might move on drafting him altogether.
Sanders is at the moment projected to go No. 9 to the Saints, in line with ESPN’s Mel Kiper.
If Sanders slides previous the Browns and Giants at No. 2 and three respectively, then it opens the door for the Steelers to contemplate buying and selling as much as draft him.
If the Saints move on Sanders at No. 9, there’s no telling how far the drop can be for Sanders and perhaps the Steelers may scoop him with out shifting in any respect.
The draft questions come because the Steelers have lengthy been awaiting a response from free-agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers to see if he can be their steadying pressure behind heart.
Rodgers had a throwing session with star receiver DK Metcalf at UCLA in March and the Steelers sounded optimistic about the potential of the longer term Corridor of Famer coming to Pittsburgh ultimately week’s NFL house owners conferences.
Sanders’ father, NFL Corridor of Famer and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders beforehand mentioned they anticipated him to be a top-three choose and informed the QB to disregard the skin noise.
“I told him, first of all, don’t believe nothing that they say. Because people are going to criticize you so you fall to them. That’s how it is. It’s positioning right now. So, don’t believe none of that. It’s positioning right now. But he’s speaking to the guys that make the moves, so he’s not listening to the media,” Deion mentioned throughout a February interview at Radio Row. “He’s speaking to head coaches, GM’s and all of that of the first three teams, pretty much. Because that’s where we think he’s going to land, somewhere in there.”
Sanders was extremely productive in school whereas at Colorado, serving to his teammate Travis Hunter win the Heisman Trophy as a large receiver and cornerback.
He threw for 4,134 yards, 37 touchdowns and 10 interceptions with a superb 74 % completion share.