There are prizes and there are pitfalls to celebrity. As the son of the legendary Deion Sanders - over the years a controversial figure in his own right - Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders surely knows this.
A projected first-round pick, Sanders’ fall to Round 5 was the top story of the 2025 NFL Draft, with the view being simply that the QB wasn't worthy of the hype.
He's now the fourth quarterback on Cleveland’s wacky depth chart, and ideally is focused on speeding his way up that chart ...
But instead ...
On June 5, Sanders was ticketed for speeding, going 91 mph in a 65-mph zone. Fewer than two weeks later, on June 17, he was pulled over again for going 101 mph in a 60-mph zone.
At Browns tight end Davis Njoku’s charity softball event, Sanders’ response to those speeding tickets went viral.
“I’m just a little boy … I made some wrong choices personally,” Sanders said. “I gotta own up to them. I made some not-great choices. I learn from ‘em. I learn. I learn.”
Wrong answer.
The Browns have also responded.
“He is taking care of the tickets,” Browns spokesman Peter John-Baptiste said, per cleveland.com.
Again ... wrong answer.
Shedeur's quote merits criticism.
So does the Browns' by-rote seven-word address.
And here's the problem with all of that, in combination with Daddy Deion's position that his kids never do anything wrong and that they have long been persecuted for being famous: Somebody needs to tell this "kid'' (Shedeur is actually 23) that motorists who drive at around 100 MPH when it's around twice the posted speed limit ...
Sometimes die.
Sometimes kill other people.
It that worthy of something more than Deion's deflections, Shedeur's cuteness and the Browns' auto-reply?