Are teams rethinking Shedeur? … As recently as a few days ago the feeling we were getting from our sources around the NFL that it was pretty much guaranteed that either Cleveland or the NY Giants would select Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders with their respective picks at this month’s draft. However, we’ve gotten the sense over the past few days that our sources just aren’t so sure any longer. We are hearing, for example, the word ‘underwhelming’ creep into conversations about Sanders’ pro day last Friday. That was certainly our feeling here. Sanders did throw some lovely deep balls, but there just wasn’t the zip on the ball that you want to see from a guy projected to be a top 2-3 QB prospect. Sanders who came into the day already needing to answer some questions needed to nail it and its just not clear he did. And that may very well have teams like the Browns and Giants asking themselves the $64K question: ‘do we pass on a non-QB with elite potential to take a QB because we have to?’ In fact, both the Browns and Giants have at least claimed that they won’t be ‘forced’ to take a QB. The Giants, in particular, appear to have given themselves some breathing room by signing veterans Russell Wilson and Jamies Winston, while the Browns have been talking up Kenny Pickett, whom the acquired in a trade with Philadelphia earlier this off-season, as a veteran with starting experience with whom they could live.
The interesting corollary to the whole issue IF – and it is still a big IF – Sanders should start to slide just how far might he drop. If nothing else, for teams like the Browns and Giants, he would add another body to the second-tier group of QBs including Jaxson dart of Ole Miss, Louisville’s Tyler Shough and perhaps Jalen Milroe of Alabama should they be interested in trading back into the 1st round in order to address their QB situation. Stay tuned. Just 17 days to go!
