The largest story of the NFL 2025 Draft was not the massive swing of the Jacksonville Jaguars to exchange for WR/CB Travis Hunter, it was the massive line of liners in the first round.
It was, as always, a slide. A very prominent slide.
Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders was not chosen in the first round of the draft, and led many shots, on both sides of the currency:
ESPN shows that his Draft Day predictor thought there was a 96% probability of nightclubs that Sanders would go for team 21.
Mel Kiper then names numerous quartbacks of the star/hall of fame that were approved in the Draft. #NFL #Nfldraft pic.twitter.com/2dnha4hjei
– Announcing horrible (@AwFulenenencing) April 25, 2025
If you are looking for Sanders’ name on social networks, they take them flying like bat outside hell. However, I really do not believe that this is a theory of conspiracy against Sanders, nor is it an instance of NFL racism (although we can point out that many other things are an example of that). I think this case is quite simple:
Shedeur Sanders was always a first first round round round.
I had Sanders like my QB1, but I didn’t have QBS as a safe first round locks. As much as I love how Sanders plays the game, its precision launching on the center of the field and the touch in the field, playing the field marshal position in the modern NFL is about having a superpower. Everyone pursues their own version of Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, boys who can master the game with the arm or legs.
Sanders is not that.
Unlike the best teams such as Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams or Drake Maye, not he is not that rocket arm or the ability to take care of the game with the legs. The NFL is willing to risk men with that athletics, because it is easier to teach the boys to throw a football ball. It is a bit more difficult to teach a boy to be more athletic. This is the entire premise behind the colts that chose Anthony Richardson at number 5 in 2023 (Althehegh made that process to Botch’s children after they recruited it). While Sanders does some of the other things well, his athletic advantage is not really as high as other QB prospects tasks in the first round, with the exception of types such as BO NX and Michael Penix Jr.
What leads us to the second part of why fell: NFL teams are much more willing to deal with others … things if you are a great athlete. I could be looking too far in tea leaves, but this reasoning behind why Jaxson Dart was tasks at age 25 instead of Sanders really feeling realizing:
One more context about why #Giants Negotiated to obtain Jaxson Dart, from multiple sources:
• Culture and competitor builder: travels to Josh Allen in terms of boys who want to play for him. He can be 21 years old, but leads as if he were 35 years old
• elite leadership skills: Dart was a … https://t.co/wdmjlqaqng pic.twitter.com/v1u4hsmoly
– Jordan Schultz (@schultz_report) April 25, 2025
The greatest number of things to come from this is the section where the source says that the giants felt “even more comfortable with Dart once the helmet came out.” That seems to be Hurd too excited with Sanders in meetings and interviews. But again, the teams are willing to endure some of those things if you are supremely talented. Caleb Williams was first in general despite being chosen by how he loses or his mentality in a costume. None of those things matters if a boy is too good or has athletics to overcome it.
Sanders, to be Franco, is not really that second athletic march that most other boys have. While wen guys like Joe Burrow and CJ Stud win despite not being athletes that Sanders did not mitigate the pressure in the same way that these guys did. While I think Dart in the first round is a massive range, multiple things can be true. Sanders is a better QB, but not only teams wanted to link its franchise with its limited sports rise.
There is no conspiracy around the Sanders slide. He was always more a first -round first round player, which is perfectly fine.