This happened: the quarter-back of Colorado Shedeur Sanders fell into the first round of the NFL 2025 draft.
Thanks to the pre-trafic process, it was difficult to remember a more enigmatic, polarizing, mainly perceived than Sanders quarter. Some analyst projects loved it; The most firmly thought it later belonged to the first round of the project.
After a stellar passage, but not dominant by two years in Colorado, Sanders was barely available after the season. No participation in the East-West sanctuary. No training in the NFL screening combination. Only one compulsory press conference in Indianapolis. That’s it.
Entering the draft evening, there were four clubs with distinct quarter-back posts: the Titans, the Browns, the Giants and the Steelers. Other quarter -back posts which have in a considerably imminent – in particular long -term – have included jets and saints, and there is generally at least one team which secretly plans to upgrade the position earlier than everyone.
The Titans, as expected, used the choice n ° 1 on the quarter of Miami (FL) Cam Ward. The giants, on the other hand, took the rusher on board Abdul Carter third in total before Back to Tour 1 for Ole Miss Jaxson Dart signator. As for the other teams, they also went to different directions; The Browns exchanged and obtained the defensive line player Mason Graham at n ° 5, the jets and the saints both took the top-10 of the offensive plated at Armand Membou and Kelvin Banks Jr. respectively, and the Steelers concentrated to the other side of the ball taking Derrick Harmon.
After 32 choices, Sanders was left without a team.
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Looking at the story of the quarter writing, it is a position that is selected earlier than any other on the ground, even if a prospect is clearly defective. Over the past 10 years, the average draft position for the first three quarters is the choice n ° 12. This suggests that Sanders fall is actually quite shocking. Heck, even the Steelers of choice n ° 21 – long considered as a net of Sanders net – transmitted to him. It is a red flag.
Why did Shemer Sanders fell into the draft of the NFL 2025?
From an evaluation point of view, it is not as shocking as historical trends suggest. Before the draft, in a room which theoretically inserted Ward and Sanders in last year’s class which included six quarters of the first round, Sanders ranked last in n ° 8. He was a good, not a great perspective in the field, somewhere in the Teddy Bridgewater range in Geno Smith. Bridgewater was the last choice in the first round in 2014. Smith went around 2.
Maturity and / or off -scope concerns are another key point. It is an uncertain variable in what is already a complicated multilayer evaluation process for media members. It is better to stick to the analysis of films, measurable and measures.
The size classification in a quarter position takes into account the ideologies passed on a “too short” player for the position when the real concerns generally concern the strength of the arm. Although it is not absolute, generally, the shorter the quarter-back, the lower the arm. And that is precisely why short quarters – with important arms – like Baker Mayfield, Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray succeeded despite their lack of stature.
Sanders measured at 6 feet 1 inch and 212 pounds with the combine harvester. Although I do not stimulate or disqualify a quarter-rear depending on the size alone, those who have larger and thicker frames are generally more trustworthy. The most fragile quarters – like any other position – at least seem more subject to injuries.
For this reason, Sanders did not pass a purely qualitative “size” test. However, having additional meat on your ribs does not guarantee anything on the injury’s front. The only element in the quarter-back that seems to help reduce the risk of injury: the ability to escape defenders. Pretty logical, right? Beyond the health factor, it is very useful to maintain training for life.
Sanders looked a little slow on the film. He has not attracted Bledsoe into his pocket, but according to today’s standards, he does not have the suddenness and pure speed of the short region to regularly flee very talented defensive plasters, rushers and seconds.
The figures confirm this. Sanders’ pressure rate is 20.1% per season after posting a level of 25.1% in 2023. If you are an elite athlete and an improvisation master, you can throw TTT by the window. Sanders is not one of these things either.
And, yes, the bag pressure rate of Jayden Daniels was 20.2% in his final, Heisman Trophy Winning Year in Lsu, but even Deion Sanders would admit that his son is not close, athletically, in Daniels. This inability to keep a regular distance from the pressure was probably another “strike” against Sanders as a truly high-end quarter-arre perspective in my opinion.
“Precise” would be at the top, in bold letters, to take up the Sanders project. Its percentage of adjusted completion of 81.8% ranked third at the FBS in 2024 among the quarters with at least 200 attempts. The warning? Its average depth of target (ADOT) of 8.1 yards ranked 129th out of 156 qualifications.
Although it is a clear strength of his film, it is not CJ Stroud or Joe Burrow caliber. And although there is no way to quantify the strength of Sanders arm, the evaluation is that it is only slightly higher than the average.
Consequently, with hindsight, Sanders’ slide should have been expected, in particular compared to most of the quarter-arre perspectives. Being selected in the second round is not so precipitous with a fall. However, it is surprising that a team that has chosen from the first 32 selections did not fall in love with the attraction of Sanders and the attention that it will undoubtedly bring to the city and to the franchise.
