Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders: I’m muchbetter than any QB in 2024 NFL Draft

Shedeur Sanders had a strong launching season under center for the Colorado Buffaloes. Apparently, Sanders’ 2023 efficiency hasactually offered him even more self-confidence in how he stacks up versus his quarterback equivalents.

“I’m prejudiced, however I wear’t see a quarterback that’s muchbetter than me,” Sanders stated when asked Friday by Sports Illustrated where he’d be chosen if he were in the 2024 NFL Draft. “I puton’t see a quarterback that went through as much hardship as me, that had 4 [offensive coordinators] in 4 years.

“Coming from an HBCU, coming to a Power Five [program], having genuine pressure on me. A lot of individuals puton’t comprehend, that’s a lot more difficulty than you believe simply even being the kid of Deion Sanders.”

In other words, Sanders is stating he’s muchbetter than the previous 2 Heisman Trophy winners (USC’s Caleb Williams and LSU’s Jayden Daniels), UNC’s Drake Maye, Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., Oregon’s Bo Nix and Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy, who are all in the 2024 draft.

Sanders stated he provides credit to those gamers; he simply believes he’s muchbetter.

“You put any of those guys in [my] circumstance, they’re not doing that. I regard their videogame, I regard what they’re doing duetothefactthat to be able to be a first-round draft choice, to be able to have success on the field, it takes a lot of difficult work and decision and whatever. But the most pressure and the mostsafe bet is me,” Sanders stated.

Across the 11 begins that he made this season, Sanders amountedto 3,230 passing backyards, 27 passing goals, 3 interceptions and a 151.7 passer ranking, while finishing 69.3% of his passes. He likewise punched in 4 hurrying goals. Colorado started the 2023 season 3-0 before losing 8 of its next 9 videogames, completing last in the Pac-12.

Sanders is goinginto his senior season, as Colorado relocations from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 for2024 He invested the veryfirst 2 seasons of his college profession at Jackson State (2021-22) before following head coach Deion Sanders, his daddy, to Colorado for 2023.

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Concerning the mostlikely occasion that Sanders states for the draft after the 2024 college football season, he and Texas’ Quinn Ewers are amongst the early quarterback headliners for the 2025 NFL Draft.

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