Deion Sanders says NFL teams can expect his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter, to navigate their way out of being drafted into bad situations in next year’s draft.
“I know where I want them to go,” Sanders said Friday on “Million Dollaz Worth of Game,” a Barstool Sports podcast. “So, it’s certain cities that ain’t going to happen. It’s going to be an Eli.”
In 2004, quarterback Eli Manning said he would not play for the San Diego Chargers, who drafted him and promptly traded him to the New York Giants, where Manning won two Super Bowls.
Sanders mentioned San Francisco, Dallas, Washington and Baltimore specifically as possible landing spots for Shedeur Sanders and Hunter, who last year Sanders referred to as his “fourth son.”
“Let God send my baby somewhere warm, not somewhere cold,” Sanders told a crowd of a few hundred fans at the final stop of his book tour last week.
Sanders said he expects both Hunter and Shedeur Sanders to be drafted in the top four, but wasn’t certain who would go higher. Last week, he said Sanders would “probably” be the second quarterback picked in this year’s draft. Shedeur Sanders said he elected to return to Colorado instead of entering the draft because he wasn’t pleased with how the Buffaloes’ season ended. Colorado went 4-8 and Sanders missed the final game of the season with a back injury.
“The only reason I know that, don’t you think I know people in the NFL? I’m sorry, I played for how many years, 14? Got a gold jacket at the crib, I think. I think I know some people. Jerry Jones. Arthur Blank. I know some people in the game. Roger Goodell. So when I speak I’m not just throwing stuff out of my head. I’m throwing stuff based on knowledge. So let’s just get that straight.”
Colorado, who moves from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 this offseason, opens its season at home against North Dakota State on Aug. 31. The Buffaloes’ spring game is slated for April 27. Sanders said last week ESPN has passed on broadcasting the game again like it did a year ago, instead telling the Buffaloes the network plans to focus on that weekend’s NFL Draft. Sanders said the university is still in talks with Fox and the Pac-12 Network to possibly broadcast the game.
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