- At a football clinic, a young girl asked Sanders if he wished Shedeur played for a different team.
- Sanders humorously dodged the question, suggesting it was designed to make him go viral.
- Shedeur Sanders made his first NFL appearance after starting quarterback Dillon Gabriel suffered a concussion.
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said he got emotional and was ‘in tears’ upon learning his son Shedeur made his NFL debut as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns in a 23-16 loss Sunday against Baltimore. But he also fielded a tough question about his son’s situation in Cleveland from a young girl who attended a family football clinic afterward in Boulder.
“Would you want Shedeur Sanders to be on any other team?” the girl asked.
Sanders dodged the question.
“She’s trying to take me viral,” Sanders said at the clinic, as documented on YouTube by his Sanders’ eldest son Deion Jr. “I’m going to stay away from that one.”
Sanders laughed and called it “a good one.”
“Who’s your parents?” he asked the girl, not believing this girl “just thought of that on her own.”
“Why would you ask me that?” Sanders asked her while the others in the crowd laughed.
“It was just a question,” the girl replied.
“No, it’s not just a question,” Sanders said in amusement.
“I just wanted to get your opinion,” the girl said.
“Wow, she’s good,” Sanders said.
Why this is a sensitive subject for Deion Sanders
Fans of Shedeur Sanders have been frustrated by the fact he hasn’t gotten a chance in the NFL until Sunday after being relegated to backup quarterback behind fellow rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel. The Browns are 2-8 this year and could play Shedeur again Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders if Gabriel remains out with a concussion.
Deion Sanders previously hasn’t been shy about saying he would intervene on behalf of Shedeur to prevent him from playing for a team he didn’t like. But that kind of approach probably didn’t help his son in the NFL draft, where he fell to the fifth round after previously being projected as a first-round pick. There’s not much Sanders can do about his son’s status with the Browns now after he agreed to a four-year contract with the team before the season.
Deion Sanders told families at the clinic he was “in tears” and “crying” after Shedeur became his first son to play in an NFL game.
‘What teams are you coaching?’ young fan asks Deion Sanders
Not all the questions he fielded from the youngsters were as tough as that one about the Browns.
“What teams are you coaching?” one youngster asked.
“This team called the Colorado Buffaloes,” Sanders said.
Another asked which team he’d like to coach if he had a choice.
“It would be right here,” Sanders said. “It would be Colorado.”
Colorado is 3-7 this season and faces Arizona State Saturday night at home.
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