NFL Network's Kyle Brandt slams media over Shedeur Sanders draft coverage

Danny Parkins reacts to Shedeur Sanders falling to the 5th round, calling it the biggest draft drop we’ve ever seen

NFL Network analyst Kyle Brant railed against the media narrative and the theories around why Shedeur Sanders slid in the draft to the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round.

Brandt appeared on "Good Morning Football" to address the Sanders slide that took hold over the weekend. Sports pundits immediately made the issue about race. Stephen A. Smith called it "Kaepernick-level collusion," while former Congressman Jamaal Bowman theorized "America continues to fear strong Black men."

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Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders, #2, talks to ESPN after the University of Colorado NFL Showcase at the CU Indoor Practice Facility in Boulder, Colorado, on April 4, 2025. (Michael Ciaglo-Imagn Images)

This did not sit well with Brandt. He said Sanders slipping into the fifth round started as a "football story to a drunken media story."

"It became one of these seismic media rodeos where you can sit there and watch people that you’ve followed for years say things you know they don’t believe or at best they were saying from some emotional place where they were so unhinged and off the reservation … I mean, I’m hearing things like conspiracy, collusion – what are you talking about?" Brandt asked.

"Do you not think that if one team thought Shedeur Sanders would help them win one more game than the other guy, that they wouldn’t immediately draft him? They would. I promise you. These coaches, these GMs are obsessed, desperate, nomadic people who just want to win games and not move their families to another city after they’re fired."

Brandt described the media conversation