Barring injury, Colorado's Shedeur Sanders is the top quarterback Nebraska will face in 2024. Shedeur Sanders, the potential No. 1 pick of the 2025 NFL draft, is not above cold calling on social media.
And so it was on April 15 that the Colorado quarterback posted on X his plans for the upcoming spring recruiting season. “Portal opens soon let’s get busy,” Sanders wrote. His father, CU coach Deion Sanders, couldn’t have fashioned a more direct invitation.
“They don’t wanna get in the portal and not have nowhere to go,” Shedeur Sanders said April 18 at a press conference. “People are ready though. I have a lot of responses.
” It was the latest bit of drama out of a program full of it in 2023, when CU stormed out of the gates 3-0 — including a 36-14 win over Nebraska — and pulled TV ratings normally reserved for Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia and Texas. The Buffaloes, even as they fell apart and finished 4-8, were a reality show unfolding on multiple networks over three months. And it was a family show, too.
Deion was coach and dad, with two sons, Shilo and Shedeur, on the team. Shilo, a 6-foot safety, hits hard and forced four fumbles last year. He projects as a late-round NFL draft guy in 2025.
Shedeur is a star. He acts like one — including when he claimed Nebraska disrespected Folsom Field’s buffalo logo with a pregame prayer — and plays like one. And barring injury, he’s the top quarterback, by some margin, NU will face in 2024.
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