Potential top 2025 NFL Draft quarterback prospect Shedeur Sanders reportedly rubbed some teams the wrong way by referring to himself as a program changer during the NFL Scouting Combine, according to NFL Network insider Peter Schrager.
“His point at the combine, and it rubbed people wrong, the way he had some bravado at it, is that he changes places when he gets there,” Schrager said during an appearance on the Bill Simmons Podcast Tuesday (March 4). “So Jackson State, obviously, went from this HBCU that had no resources to suddenly being a national name. And then he goes to Colorado and we had one week where ‘Big Noon Kickoff’ from Fox and ‘GameDay’ were there, Week 2, vying for real estate in Boulder. It happens.
“Shedeur has never wavered that he’s a leader and those guys do respect him.”
Sanders, 23, the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, who was his head coach at both Jackson State and Colorado, showed confidence while selling himself to NFL teams during the NFL Combine last week.
“We went from Jackson State to Colorado and changed two programs back-to-back,” Sanders said. “You don’t think I could come to an NFL franchise and change a program again? It’s history. It’s always going to repeat itself.”
Sanders currently has a 6.30 prospect grade of "will eventually be plus starter," as well as an 87 production score, the highest among quarterbacks to have competed at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine and a 79 total score, third among Combine quarterbacks, on his NFL.com prospect page.