Colorado coach Deion Sanders’ quarterback and son, Shedeur Sanders, is the present betting favourite to be the primary total decide within the 2025 NFL draft. If the season ended in the present day, the Raiders would have the No. 2 decide. Deion thinks the Raiders could be a great spot for his son.
At an occasion in Las Vegas, Deion shared the stage with Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, and when Sanders had the microphone he praised Pierce after which mentioned he’d wish to see each Shedeur and Colorado defensive again Shilo Sanders to play for the Raiders.
“You are really one of the best,” Deion instructed Pierce. “Now I simply want you to do one factor: I want you to draft these Sanders boys.”
Shilo, who is 2 years older than Shedeur, isn’t seen as an elite draft prospect. But Deion would certainly like to see a group he approves of draft Shedeur within the first spherical and in addition draft Shilo in a later spherical.
Players can’t management who drafts them, however a participant can strongly encourage or strongly discourage sure groups if he has robust opinions about the place he ought to play. And a participant with a father who’s very well-connected in NFL circles is healthier positioned to establish the gamers he’s prepared to play for or unwilling to play for. And a participant with household wealth is healthier positioned to make use of the leverage of sitting out a whole 12 months and re-entering the draft the next 12 months if he doesn’t just like the group that drafts him.
All of these dynamics had been in play when Eli Manning refused to go to the Chargers once they drafted him with the primary total decide in 2004, and leveraged a commerce to the Giants. Similar dynamics may come into play if Deion and Shedeur don’t just like the group that finally ends up with the primary total decide in 2025. The Raiders would apparently meet with the Sanders household’s approval.
