Mel Kiper Jr. blasts 'disgusting' NFL teams as Colorado legend Shedeur Sanders slides to Saturday of NFL draft

Zain Bando

Mel Kiper Jr. blasts 'disgusting' NFL teams as Colorado legend Shedeur Sanders slides to Saturday of NFL draft image

Former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders remains the biggest story of the NFL Draft's first two days. However, no NFL team has been willing to take a chance on the son of current Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders.

To the surprise of the college and NFL community, Shedeur Sanders appears to be in limbo as to which team, if any, would select him, given the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints all addressed their respective needs. However, both the Saints and Giants went with arguably less flashy quarterback picks in Louisville's Tyler Shough and Ole Miss product Jaxson Dart, respectively, instead of Shedeur Sanders.

NFL pundits and draft experts like Mel Kiper Jr. are adamant that NFL teams will regret passing on Shedeur Sanders after all.

"For Deion Sanders and Shedeur Sanders, all I can say is, I think it's disgusting," Kiper Jr. said on "SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt." "I don't understand what the heck is going on with this [slide]. [He was] the fifth player on my [draft] board. This has never happened before in 47 years where a player [ranked] that high has dropped this far."

Kiper Jr. added not a single quarterback picked thus far outside of No. 1 overall selection Cam Ward is "better than Shedeur" and it's "not even close."

If this is the case, either NFL personnel gave Shedeur Sanders a next-to-impossible interview process, or there is another unknown reason why the Buffaloes star has yet to be picked.

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Regardless, Shedeur Sanders' slide has become the biggest draft story in recent memory as Saturday approaches.

By then, we'll see if a team listens to Kiper Jr.

Only time will tell.

Zain Bando

Zain Bando is a freelance writer for The Sporting News. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Over the years, Bando has written about various beats surrounding Illinois, Northwestern, and Kansas State Athletics but sticks to the Big Ten as his primary expertise. Outside of collegiate reporting, Bando covers MMA and boxing for MMA Knockout On Sports Illustrated and hosts/co-hosts two podcasts as part of the Empty The Bench Podcast Network – Bando's Breakdowns and The MMA Outsiders, which air weekly on YouTube and are distributed on all podcast platforms Tuesday nights and Wednesday afternoons. Bando is a Chicago Suburban native and a member of the FWAA and USBWA, continuing to hone his professional skills as a sports journalist and media personality. Since June 2019, Bando's byline has been seen across many mediums, including MSN, Yardbarker, Deadspin, FanSided, BJPenn.com, Bridge Media Network (Sports News Highlights), Mike Farrell Sports, Reuters, and more. When Bando is not writing, he binges on old UFC fights, spends time with family and friends, memorizes every Super Bowl, and manifests all the places he still has to travel to (even while bringing his laptop).