Brett Favre offers crucial NFL Draft reminder amid Shedeur Sanders’ shocking fall

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The final day of the 2025 NFL Draft is upon us, and these next four rounds will fly by with prospects hoping a dream calls their name to join them.

Among those is someone no one believed to be going on Day 3: Shedeur Sanders. The Colorado Buffaloes quarterback fell out of the first round, and three more quarterbacks were taken in Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday night, ending Day 2 in complete shock.

But one Hall of Fame quarterback decided to send a draft reminder not just to Sanders, but to all those still waiting to get selected.

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The stage during the Atlanta Falcons pick during the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft at Lambeau Field on April 24, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Brett Favre, whom the Atlanta Falcons selected No. 33 overall in the 1991 NFL Draft, posted on X a couple of his famous draft day pictures with an important message.

"Heck I didn’t care when I got drafted, I just wanted a team to give me a chance wherever I went," Favre wrote. "It’s what you do when your # is called that matters, not when you were taken. 

Favre’s NFL Draft story is also a unique one considering the Falcons’ head coach at the time, Jerry Glanville, did not approve of the choice for the Southern Miss product. He even noted that it would take a plane crash for him to even put Favre into a game. 

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Favre played in just two games, attempting four passes, including his first, which was returned for a pick-six in Week 11 against Washington.  

"On top of that, the team that drafted me