NFL assistant coach pleads not to draft Colorado's Shedeur Sanders after 'worst formal interview'

Zain Bando

NFL assistant coach pleads not to draft Colorado's Shedeur Sanders after 'worst formal interview' image

The NFL draft is just under two days away in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and one of the top prospects most are keeping their eye on is former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders.

Despite his well-documented family history, an anonymous NFL assistant told NFL Media's Tom Pelissero Sanders could be in for a complete disaster of an NFL career if he doesn't clean up his act.

"The worst formal interview I've ever been in in my life," the executive said. "He's so entitled. He takes unnecessary sacks. He never plays on time. He has horrible body language. He blames teammates. ... But the biggest thing is, he's not that good." 

There were uglier critiques, too, including an AFC coordinator who wasn't a fan of the comparisons to Deion Sanders.

"You can't have your dad saying, 'I'm going to come put a quarterback coach on blast who said you were arrogant.' So, he can't be criticized?"

Either way, it seems apparent the jury is still out on Shedeur Sanders. SN's Vinnie Iyer still sees the Colorado product as a valuable prospect as the No. 20 player in the class.

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Whether Shedeur Sanders pans out or not, at least the league has begun to take notice that ego can potentially ruin a career.

Despite that, Shedeur Sanders is going to have a chance to prove his doubters wrong regardless of how grim his outlook may seem.

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).