The Shedeur Sanders discourse rolls on into Day 2 of the draft, and it certainly appears all options are on the table for the Colorado quarterback.
Sanders, who shockingly slipped out of the first round, looks a possibility to slip even further before the second and third rounds play out on Friday.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter even threw out a wild hypothesis that Sanders could end up with the Cowboys, Cardinals or Seahawks — none of whom have been connected to Sanders and all of which look set at the quarterback position.
“When we look at the teams that would consider him, I think the Giants obviously preferred Jaxson Dart. I think the Browns preferred Jaxson Dart. I think the Saints absolutely preferred Jaxson Dart,” Schefter said on ESPN ahead of the second round. “[Louisville product] Tyler Shough is gonna figure in there tonight and I won’t be surprised if Tyler Shough goes ahead of Shedeur Sanders tonight. Can you imagine if Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough both end up being drafted ahead of Shadeur Sanders?”
“I think there are not a lot of teams that love the idea of drafting Shedeur. And I think now we’re at the point where unless he goes in the third round, No. 83, to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had a discussion about him on the board at No. 21, I think we may get a team that we never connected to him. And I don’t know what team that is. But I’ll give you some examples right now, and again I’m just hypothesizing.
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“A team that has him high on their board that never thought he would be available in Round 2. The Seattle Seahawks, the Arizona Cardinals and — hold onto your head — the Dallas Cowboys. I’m not telling you any of these teams are going to take him. What I am saying is that it will not surprise me if all of a sudden a team that takes him tonight is a team we just didn’t even connect to him and had him high enough on the board that when he was available at their spot, they couldn’t pᴀss him up.”
That certainly sounds like Sanders’ outlook isn’t great heading into the second day.
Eyes will be on the Saints at 40th overall in connection to Sanders, but based on that from Schefter, it wouldn’t be a surprise if they prefer Shough, the Louisville quarterback who has gotten some buzz lately.
Given the circus that will inevitably surround Sanders, it’s worth wondering whether any of the teams Schefter named as potential wild cards would want to put up with all of that for a quarterback who doesn’t have a path to starting.
If not, maybe it’s even possible that the Sanders slide continues on into the third day of the draft.
At least that would give ESPN a way to fill airtime on Saturday.
