Deion Sanders complains about a Shedeur problem Coach Prime inflamed after guaranteeing ‘top 5 pick’
There are a multitude of reasons why Shedeur Sanders fell all the way to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, and some of them are absurd.
But Deion Sanders‘ ongoing blame game is a reminder why NFL life is still needlessly complicated for a second-year Cleveland Browns quarterback who statistically was one of the worst QBs in the league last season.
Deion only makes it harder for Shedeur to succeed
“He will be a top 5 pick,” Shedeur’s father tweeted on May 1, 2024, a year before the former Colorado Buffaloes QB became the No. 144 overall pick.
“Where yo son going ? Lololol I got time today. Lololol.”
That trolling response received more than 23 million views, and captured the hype vs reality divide that Shedeur faced in the draft and during his dramatic rookie season with the Browns.
In an April 2025 story published before the first round, Deion attacked again when it was mentioned that Shedeur might not be a first-round pick.
“This is venomous,” Deion told USA Today.
“It’s to the point where it ain’t even cute no more. It’s so predictable. I’m flipping the channel today, listening. ‘Jaxson Dart is special; Shedeur Sanders ain’t…’ Y’all c’mon. Stop.”
The initial NFL comparison between Dart and Shedeur isn’t close.
Dart is the Giants’ new franchise quarterback, paired with the recently hired John Harbaugh — a Super Bowl champion while coaching the Baltimore Ravens — to turn around New York’s biggest NFL team.
QB’s dad wants to meet with Browns coach
Shedeur is expected to enter training camp behind Deshaun Watson on the Browns’ depth chart, while rookie head coach Todd Monken tries to lift Cleveland out of a 5-12 hole.
Shedeur has also recently been dragged into a social media feud involving his brother, Shilo, who told a respected female Browns beat reporter to “go make a sandwich” in a sexist message.
But there was Coach Prime — once best known to NFL and MLB fans as Prime Time — making it all about him and his QB son again on The Barbershop.
“When he takes off his shirt, I see the scars on his back that he’s been through hell, but he’s made it through hell,” Deion said about Shedeur.
Then Deion, who has a 16-21 record with the Buffaloes and went 3-9 last year, said something that no other big-name college football coach in the country would say.
Shedeur’s biggest concern should be Deshaun Watson
“I want to meet him (Monken) because I think it’s vital that as a coach, not the dad, I can tell him a few things about (Shedeur), how to get him going,” Deion said.
“That wasn’t asked of me a year ago. I don’t understand it. Even a guy like Travis Hunter being drafted to Jacksonville and I’ve had him for the last three (years), don’t you think you would want to talk to me to ask me what gets him going and what backs him off? You would want to know that.
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“So, I anticipate, and I can’t wait to have that conversation with Coach Monken.”
Why in the world would an NFL head coach trying to build respect and authority with the often-dysfunctional Browns want to check in with a backup QB’s overreaching dad?
Don’t the AFC South champion Jaguars (13-4 record last year) have a much better feel for Hunter as a two-way pro than his old college football coach?
Sure, Shedeur should’ve been drafted before the fifth round.
Shedeur has to be better in second year
If he continues to improve in 2026, it’ll be even more obvious that Shedeur should’ve been taken before third-stringer Dillon Gabriel (third round, No. 94 overall by the Browns in 2025).
But Shedeur’s 68.1 passer rating was the worst in the NFL last year, his 56.6 completion percentage also held the worst spot in the league, and he threw more interceptions (10) than touchdowns (seven).
That’s why many across the league are still skeptical that Shedeur has everything it takes to be a top starting QB in the NFL while playing for the Browns.
Deion didn’t help his son get drafted in the first round last year.
If anything, Coach Prime turned off prospective NFL franchises when he stated two months before the draft that ‘there’s a lot of teams I preferred he didn’t play for.’
“I’m a real dad that has a lot of information about the NFL,” Deion told the Dan Patrick Show.
“I know some folks who know some folks … who know some folks, in the NFL. And I know what’s behind the curtain. So definitely I’m going to lead them in the right direction.”
It’s already hard enough to win in Cleveland.
Coach Prime insisting that he wants to meet with the Browns’ head coach to talk about his QB son won’t help Shedeur’s NFL cause in 2026.
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