Shedeur’s Slide
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While the quarterback-needy Pittsburgh Steelers wait for word from Aaron Rodgers, they’ve made one thing clear: They’re not ready to jump into the Shedeur Sanders business. Not yet, at least.
And they’re not alone.
Three rounds into the 2025 NFL Draft, no team is.
One hundred and two selections have been made, and Sanders, a borderline first-round prospect and considered as recently as February to be in the running with Miami’s Cam Ward as the first quarterback off the board, is somehow still waiting. Sanders watched three more quarterbacks — Louisville’s Tyler Shough (No. 40 to New Orleans), Alabama’s Jalen Milroe (No. 92 to Seattle) and Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel (No. 94 to Cleveland) — go ahead of him in Friday’s second and third rounds.
With Ward and Mississippi’s Jaxson Dart going in Thursday’s first round, that means five QBs have heard their names before Sanders.
Has a highly rated player ever fallen this far?
It’s hard to think of one.
A bunch of quarterbacks who probably won’t be as good as Sanders have already gone, but none of their dads are named “Primetime,” and none of them have Trump (hard to find a group of billionaires who dislike Trump more than NFL ownership) in their corner. Evidently it’s just not worth it for a guy who projects as a backup. I suspect that the really QB needy teams at the moment are still hesitant because they worry they’ll need to plug him in right away; the best place might be somewhere that has an established QB situation for at least a couple years to wait for Sanders to build himself into the role.
That said, while I expected Shedeur would slide a bit this is getting ridiculous. The team that drafts him will likely get great value… if at the cost of a few headaches.