Deion Sanders delivers heartbreaking eulogy for Colorado player who died tragically at 23

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Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders gave an emotional eulogy at the funeral of his sophomore quarterback Dominiq Ponder, who died in a tragic car crash this past week. Ponder was 23. 

Sanders went up to the microphone after Ponder’s family, saying it "didn’t feel right" to do so, but he couldn’t help feeling "inspired" by their words.

Then, Sanders, a spiritual man in his own right, began to speak. 

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Bethune-Cookman QB Dominiq Ponder takes a snap during the Wildcats' spring game Saturday, April 22, 2023, at Daytona Stadium. (IMAGN)

"We always ask questions about why this happened … ’God, why this and why that?’" Sanders said. 

"When we’re successful, we’re excelling, and overcoming adversity, we never ask God, ‘Why?’ then. Only in our demise and sadness of life, we challenge and ask God,’ Why?’ I think I’ve got the solution."

Sanders, then, started to speak about his former signal caller. 

"As I look right there, and look at a young man so full of life – so full of respect, bustle, hard work, and integrity. I ask God, ‘For real?’ And he whispered: ‘Dom was chosen.’

"Dom was chosen to unite y’all, to bring you all together. Dom was chosen."

"Coach Prime" directed part of his eulogy to Ponder’s parents, which led to him getting understandably choked up at the podium. 

"The only darn thing I have regret for is that when you sent us a boy. I wanted to send you back a man," Sanders said, taking a pause to try and control his emotions. 

Ponder had been a walk-on quarterback with the Buffaloes in Sanders’ first season, as he tried to configure his team.