Shedeur Sanders
Draft Collusion Concept ‘Nonsense’
… Leigh Steinberg Says
Revealed
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Pack up the tin foil hats and UFO paraphernalia … NFL agent Leigh Steinberg tells TMZ Sports activities the conspiracy principle that house owners blackballed Shedeur Sanders throughout final weekend’s draft is “nonsense.”
The previous Univ. of Colorado signal-caller, in fact, was largely anticipated to be a first-round choose … however tumbled all the way in which to the fifth spherical on Saturday — which had folks racing to social media to accuse franchises of colluding with each other to maintain Deion‘s son down.
Steinberg, although, advised us this week there’s simply no means that really occurred.
“As a result of groups need to add to their roster gamers that give them an opportunity to win,” he defined. “And that need to have the most effective gamers overruns every other conspiracy principle. Groups would draft a participant who’s received nice expertise on the sphere — he simply did not discover a match within the course of.”
As an alternative, Steinberg — Patrick Mahomes‘ agent — mentioned if folks need to level the finger someplace … they need to begin with Shedeur’s pre-draft course of.
Steinberg advised us he believes not throwing on the mix — plus not getting ready sufficiently for interviews with common managers — have been huge causes for his slide.
He additionally mentioned the QB’s 13-12 document with the Buffaloes — and his well-known father’s massive shadow — probably performed a job as nicely.
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Nonetheless, Steinberg advised us it may all be “a extremely good factor” for the younger Sanders’ profession — pointing on the market’s now no stress for the 23-year-old to start out straight away.
“He can nonetheless be a dominant participant,” Steinberg mentioned, “it is only a slower path.”
