THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH: NFL Hall of Famer Blasts Shedeur Sanders for Costing Himself Millions.
As Shedeur Sanders stunningly plummeted down the 2025 NFL draft board, there was a belief among some pundits that the league had unfairly evaluated the former Colorado Buffaloes star. But Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter disagrees.
Carter believes Sanders cost himself millions and only has himself to blame for his fall to the fifth round of the NFL draft.
“You’re going for a job interview,” Carter said during an episode of the Fully Loaded podcast that was released Monday. “So for his job interview, he was so concerned about what his outfit was, his necklace was over a hundred grand. Like, he hadn’t even convinced people that you’re the face of our franchise.
“Matter of fact, he had convinced people that they were better off going in a different direction even with people who had lesser talent. That’s the rub he put onto people…He threw away at least 30 to 50 million dollars.”
So, where does Carter think it all went wrong for Sanders?
“…But Shedeur and his family, they overplayed their hand,” Carter said. “Them thinking that he was in the same evaluation mode as Eli Manning, they didn’t play that right. Them trying to narrow the teams that he was going to go to, that didn’t do right.
“Not working out at the combine, that wasn’t the right thing. His interview process—obviously he could have done a lot better in that. A lot of people left that meeting and felt he was very, very entitled.”
As Matt Walsh notes in his latest video:
To the commentators in sports media, it was a national tragedy. Shedeur’s brief draft slide was ESPN’s 9/11. This was the NFL Network’s Pearl Harbor. They’ll never forget where they were when it happened! They were shell shocked! They were dumbfounded! Grief-stricken!
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Now to be clear, they are not talking about somebody who, I don’t know, survived a school shooting. They’re talking about an already wealthy and famous athlete who had to wait a day longer than expected to be drafted into the NFL and get paid millions of more dollars to continue playing football. It’s like weeping in the street because a trust fund baby got the wrong color Ferrari for her sweet 16. I mean, most of the human population would kill just for the chance to experience this kind of disappointment*. But the sports media treated Shedeur like a Holocaust survivor because of it. All of this would just be kind of funny and embarrassing but not really worth discussing after all sports media embarrasses itself in some form pretty much every day. They embarrass themselves even more often than the news media does, if you can believe it.
And of course, this is all leading to a weekend of performative race baiting over Shedeur’s slide in the NFL draft:
* QED: Cleveland Browns backup QB drafted in round five is absolutely living his best life: Shedeur Sanders partied with ‘a million’ in Louis Vuitton cases after NFL draft — Deion Sanders Jr. reveals wild party details.