Former Colorado player takes shot at Deion Sanders' football program: 'Don't want to play for clicks'

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Cormani McClain, a five-star recruit to Colorado last year, is leaving Deion Sanders’ program and throwing some shots on his way out. 

McClain, the top-ranked cornerback in this past year’s high school class, per 247 Sports, who entered the transfer portal to find a new collegiate home, posted a video on YouTube Saturday where he discussed the Buffaloes’ program under Sanders. 

"I feel like I just don’t want to play for clicks. I actually want to be involved with a great leading program that’s going to develop players," McClain said in the video, which was titled "Next Step."

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Colorado's Cormani McClain during the Arizona game at Folsom Field in Boulder on Nov. 11, 2023. (Jamie Schwaberow/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

McClain added that he wants to "change the narrative surrounding my name and be a part of a real and great program that’s going to impact me to the best of my ability."

Sanders recently commented on McClain’s departure from his program, where he had a subtle shot himself at the corner. 

"I’m always in prayer for our young men, and I want the best for them," he said in an interview with DNVR. "I pray to God that he goes to a program that challenges him, as well as hold him accountable and develop him as a young man.

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"Unfortunately, we weren’t the program that could accomplish that, so preferably he understands that this is the second go-round and get it – go get it, man, because he has a tremendous amount of talent. But he has to want it."

Sanders’ comment infers that