Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders has gone from CU’s center of attention to an afterthought on the Cleveland Browns. Sanders is the team’s third-string quarterback and would’ve been the fourth-string had the team not traded Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders at the end of the preseason.
Deion Sanders has been quiet about it. Colorado Buffaloes On SI’s Cory Pappas believes the minute that changes, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski and GM Andrew Berry could take the offramp from “Prime Time” and trade the “Grown QB.”
Pappas referenced the “NFL connections” Deion is so proud of bailing Shedeur out of purgatory in the Browns’ QB room.
“On the one hand, Deion does have a major voice in the football world. He is not shy about speaking his mind wherever he may be. If ‘Coach Prime’ put in the motion that he thinks the Browns should trade Shedeur, it will be a question buzzing around the Browns facility. He also could reach out to NFL connections who might be interested in his son Shedeur,” Pappas wrote.
“It would likely lead to Browns coach Kevin Stefanski even receiving questions about it. The Browns could get tired of having to answer these types of questions every day about their third string quarterback and decide it would be better to trade Shedeur to not have to deal with it anymore. Shedeur could then potentially wind up with a team that gives him a better shot to play.”
Coach Prime and Stefanski have no active friendship. That doesn’t mean Coach Prime is planning on undermining Cleveland’s head coach. He had that chance after Shedeur’s brilliant preseason debut was followed by a DNP-CD. If it were to have happened at all, it would’ve been at that point.
And to that end, if he were to be this involved in his kids’ careers, he could’ve also commented on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers releasing Shilo Sanders or the Jacksonville Jaguars playing Travis Hunter primarily as a receiver and scarcely as a defensive back. Coach Prime took a dignified route while discussing Shilo’s release and hasn’t had any notable complaints about Jags coach Liam Coen’s usage of Hunter.
Pappas ultimately backed off the idea that Coach Prime would do such a thing. At the end of the day, Sanders has bigger fish to fry, mainly, trying to coach his Buffs to another winning record in the Big 12, than meddling with his sons’ NFL journeys.
If he’s to get involved, perhaps he’ll revisit getting a head coaching job with one of the 32 franchises. It’s not an impossible thought after his discussions with Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys this past offseason.
For now, Coach Prime is in his lane, and so are his sons.