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Deion Sanders says NFL teams can hope his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter can escape being drafted in 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 there are certain cities that are not 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 quickly traded him to the New York Giants, where Manning won two Super Bowls.
Sanders specifically mentioned San Francisco, Dallas, Washington and Baltimore as possible landing spots for Shedeur Sanders and Hunter, whom Sanders last year 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 selected in the top four, but he wasn’t sure who would move up higher. Last week, he said Sanders would “probably” be the second quarterback taken in this year’s draft. Shedeur Sanders said he chose to return to Colorado rather than enter the draft because he was dissatisfied 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 is because you don’t think I know people in the NFL? Sorry, I played for what, 14 years? I think I have a gold jacket in the crib. I think I know some people. Jerry Jones. Arthur in white. I know some people in the game. Roger Goodell. So when I talk I’m not just getting things out of my head. I’m throwing things based on knowledge. So let’s get that straight.”
Colorado, which moves from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 this offseason, opens its season at home against North Dakota State on August 31. The Buffaloes’ spring game is scheduled for April 27. Sanders said last week that ESPN stopped airing the game again as it did a year ago, instead telling the Buffaloes that 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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