Shedeur Sanders opens up on historic NFL Draft slide, prank call and becoming a Brown

Craig Carton breaks down how Shedeur Sanders may have actually won big by avoiding the pressure of being drafted in the first round.

Shedeur Sanders has a home in the NFL after a shocking, nearly three-day wait during which he dramatically slid down the draft. 

The Cleveland Browns ended one of the most controversial NFL Draft slides in league history when they selected Sanders in the fifth round with the 144th overall pick Saturday. 

The NFL world had been locked in on the Sanders family home since Thursday night as Sanders experienced one of the most dramatic and shocking draft slides in league history. 

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"Nothing really affected me the last couple of days," Sanders told reporters Saturday. "I'm favored, I'm blessed. Besides that, it's not really anything that changed. The love of the game is still the love of the game. When you get on the field, there wasn't too much negativity being said. I know I gotta clean up some things in my game for me to be at my best, but that's what I take each offseason one at a time and fix it.

"The main thing, I'm just proving — coach (Kevin) Stefanski and (general manager Andrew) Berry — that they are right. That's it. They're right about picking me. I'm a good decision. I'm a good draft pick for them, to be able to come in there and do what I need to do."

For Sanders, considered at one point to be a contender for the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, the fall was historic. 

Top prospects like Sanders have had shocking slides in past NFL Drafts. Aaron Rodgers slipped down to the 25th overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft and was passed over by the 49ers for Alex Smith.

Patrick Mahomes wasn't taken until the 10th pick in the 2017