Shedeur Sanders' 'mistake' cost him draft position, NFL analyst says

Geoff Schwartz, FOX Sports' NFL analyst and co-host of The Bear Bets Podcast, joins Jason McIntyre to discuss Shedeur Sanders dropping to the fifth round and how he could stand out in a crowded Cleveland Browns QB room.

Shedeur Sanders’ draft slide remained the topic of conversation a week after the Cleveland Browns selected the quarterback in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

The aftermath has had every current and former player and pundit trying to figure out why a player like Sanders, who had been projected to be one of the first players off the board, had managed to fall all the way down to No. 144.

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Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) jogs onto the field during the game against the Kansas Jayhawks at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.  (Nick Tre. Smith-Imagn Images)

ESPN NFL Draft analyst Matt Miller shed some light on the former Colorado Buffaloes star’s fall. He pointed to how Sanders and his camp had handled the entire draft process.

"I didn’t think that they handled the process well," he told Awful Announcing. "And that’s not just hindsight. I took a lot of heat for saying on ‘NFL Live,’ right before the NFL Scouting Combine, that he was making a mistake. 

"He should be throwing at the NFL Scouting Combine. He should have worked out at the East-West Shrine Game that he accepted an invite to. The NFL has this new rule that if you accept an invite to an All-Star Game, you have to participate. And he didn’t. So, I said on TV that they were not handling the process well. And I thought it would hurt him. People were not happy with me."

Miller still believed Sanders was "overrated as a player."

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, #2 of the Colorado Buffaloes,