Tacuma Roeback: Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft Slide Wasn’t About Football. It Was Personal.

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Shedeur Sanders’s inexplicable slide in the 2025 NFL Draft had nothing to do with what he did on the field. This was personal.
What happened to Shedeur — being picked much later than projected — looked, smelled, and felt like a message: that this brash, Black, privileged quarterback had to be put in his place.
More than that, it seemed the league made an example out of him and everything he represents: the new-age college athlete, already famous