Deion Sanders, the current Colorado Buffaloes head coach and NFL Hall of Famer, knows a thing or two about the draft process. With his sons, Shedeur and Shilo, gearing up for the 2025 NFL Draft, Coach Prime shared some wisdom from his prime.
Deion Sanders’ Shares Wisdom with Shedeur, Shilo
With two Super Bowl rings and a gold Hall of Fame jacket, Sanders has lived the complete football experience as a player. Yet, he’s gone from being a recruit in Florida to walking the sidelines as an FBS Power Four head coach. Last week, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” invited the all-time great to discuss the game.
More importantly, Sanders’ explained a widely held thought as truth. The coach detailed the voluminous smoke screen used by NFL teams and general managers alike. Basically, in modern parlance, lying season. He told Colbert how he sees the process.
“It’s game. All the way up into the draft, this team is going to say you’re garbage, they don’t want you, you’re the worst thing. Because they want you to fall into their laps. So, I’ve guided my kids and others, and said ‘Look, don’t believe nothing because it the salt… You’re not this, not that, because they want you to come. So, don’t believe this stuff. Don’t get into — go back and forth in the media. Just relax, and just let it ride.”
The pre-draft process allows for the rise of anonymous scouts and NFL management flooding social media and television with absurdities used to either drive down or inflate a draft prospect’s actual worth. Through various outlets, the word spreads, and you can see the actual effects.
Players that many pegs as certain first-rounders will fall to Day 3. Yes, NFL teams will use their media intermediaries to tank the prospects of draft prospects to draft them at a reasonable price. Sanders’ assertions fall well into the realm of truth. Read every draft profile with the utmost care. A profile like this stands out because of the depth of truth and detail.
Through the course of the NFL Draft’s history, unsubstantiated whispers litter the landscape. For example, in 1983, light rumors about a potential top 10 draft pick and drugs floated through the backchannels and became banter around the team. Forty-two years later, nothing resembling an ounce of validating the rumor.
The player lasted until the 27th pick, enjoying a Hall of Fame career for the Miami Dolphins. Dan Marino saw five quarterbacks chosen before him. Years later, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll confirmed the existence of the rumors in an interview, proving the absurdities of certain areas of the draft.
Granted, while Sanders’ quote rings true, his sons should not be grouped together as far as skill set. Shedeur, the quarterback, possesses top-10 talent and will hear his name called early this spring. He profiles as a franchise quarterback with the talent and leadership potential to bring a struggling franchise to a better place as a cornerstone.
Meanwhile, Shilo, the safety, looks like a Day 3 player who can start as a special teamer and needs to refine his approach and borderline reckless style in order to see the field on defense.
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Throughout the past year, the college football world felt Coach Prime’s impact on the game. Moreover, other than leading his program, he provided his draft-eligible players with the knowledge that helps them navigate the abyss of deception, known as “Lying Season.”
Sanders’ approach may rub some the wrong way, but the assessment stands. With hours of programming and hundreds of articles needed to produce, what you hear about the process and where a player needs surfaces around the time of the draft.
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