Shedeur Sanders faces first NFL test after sliding out of first round: Shouldnt have happened

There was nothing anonymous about Shedeur Sanders’ fall completely out of the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft.Arguably the most polarizing college quarterback since Johnny Manziel in 2014, a helpless Sanders and the rest of the NFL world watched together Thursday night as all his possible suitors passed.And then the Giants — the team that spent the most time with him and to whom he showed the most favoritism — passed a second time, with the added insult of trading up for quarterback Jaxson Dart instead.“I’m built for whatever today may bring,” Sanders wrote on Twitter early in the day.Well, he certainly was tested by the agony that unfolded while he stood next to his father — a Hall of Famer and his high school and college coach, Deion Sanders — at his draft party in Texas.“We all didn’t expect this, of course,” Sanders told his family and friends after going unselected, according to a video posted to social media.“But I feel like, with God, anything is possible.

Everything is possible.I don’t feel like this happened for no reason.

All this is is, of course, fuel to the fire.We all know this shouldn’t have happened.”Sanders’ strengths (toughness, accuracy and a history of turning around losing programs at Jackson State and Colorado) and weaknesses (average athleticism and arm strength) on the field are only half the story.Sanders’ brash nature rubbed some NFL personnel the wrong way during the predraft process, including a meeting with Giants head coach Brian Daboll that went south, according to draft analyst Todd McShay.Reports surfaced that some teams suspected Sanders was trying to dictate his destination by not giving his all in some interviews, which certainly backfired if true.

Once upon a time, Deion even said that there were certain organizations for whom he would not allow his son to play — never anticipating such desperate times.The anonymous quotes criticizing Sanders — something that many prospects have to deal ...