Ever since his days back in Colorado, Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders had been hyped as a surefire first-rounder. Even a potential top-five pick. So when draft night came and he slipped all the way to Round 5, pick No. 144, the football world was left scratching its head. And now, a Cleveland radio host thinks he knows why, but Deion Sanders Jr. isn’t having any of it.
The Cleveland 92.3 The Fan host Anthony Lima floated a theory that Shedeur’s tumble down the draft board had a lot to do with him skipping out on the East-West Shrine Bowl. That didn’t sit well with Coach Prime’s son. “That’s a lie. Ask Eric Galko, he runs the Shrine Bowl. Boyz sit there & ignore all the lies y’all say, but sometimes y’all just go toooooo crazy,” Sanders Jr. wrote on X.
For context, Eric Galko

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