The Shedeur Sanders-Gardner Minshew comparison that makes a weird amount of sense during NFL Draft slide

Billy Heyen

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The Shedeur Sanders-Gardner Minshew comparison that makes a weird amount of sense during NFL Draft slide image

Sports commentator Bomani Jones made some tremendous points on his X account on Saturday morning in regards to Shedeur Sanders' NFL Draft slide.

The wildest, on paper, may have been comparing Sanders to Gardner Minshew.

But there's some logic here.

Jones started off by pointing out the flaw in mock drafts. Most are based in projection, but not necessarily in knowledge of what teams are actually thinking, Jones said. 

That got some pushback, with replies rattling off Sanders' stats to Jones.

Jones had the perfect clapback.

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Minshew and Sanders, two quarterbacks everyone pictures going hand in hand.

It is a fair point about how college production isn't always a perfect professional indicator, although Minshew did have some magic moments early in his Jaguars career.

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Sanders does have a very different pedigree than Minshew, but that doesn't always matter, either.

The difference between Sanders and Minshew is that no one projected Minshew as a first-round pick.

But now that we've reached the final day of the draft, the parallel may make more sense than would initially meet the eye.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle