'Entitled' Shedeur Shocking Reason For Skid Alleged by Esaison
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With the NFL Draft having come to its conclusion, more and more details are being revealed of the inner workings of the draft, what teams were thinking and why. One of the most intriguing stories was the fall of Shedeur Sanders, who was mocked as high as No. 3, but fell to the fifth round.
Via Jacly Hendricks of the New York Post, former Cincinnati Bengals MVP quarterback Boomer Esiason, who has long been an NFL analyst following his playing career, addressed the issue on his WFAN morning show.
“When you listen to this kid talk, right prior or at the Combine, about how if you want a new culture in your locker room, I’m the guy to do that, I can turn it around, he’s very high on himself, and I think he’s very off-putting to many, many coaches and general managers in the league,” Esiason said.
“I’m telling you right now, and I know this after talking to three different personnel people in the NFL this weekend, they didn’t even have him on their board. They took him off, and they took him off because the owner said, ‘Take him off, I don’t want that guy. I don’t want this . . . entitled person on our team,’ and I don’t blame them.”
Esiason, who also starred with the New York Jets, is likely more connected in the NFL than most sources that have spoken on the topic, and he is coming out and saying outright multiple owners requested that Sanders be taken off their draft boards.
Sanders' slide seems to be more of a personality and character concern than an on-the-field one. Sanders was asked if he has any regrets about the draft process.
“Do I have any regrets?” Sanders said. “I feel like in life it’s always a way I can improve. So it’s always in different areas I’m able to improve. And some things that I could have done at the time that seemed right at the time I could have went about in a different way and that was like more during the season and stuff like that.”
Esiason himself wasn't a first-round selection. After being named a top-10 Heisman Trophy Award finalist at Maryland, Esiason was selected by the Bengals in the 2nd round of the 1984 NFL Draft. Esiason had a fantastic career with the Bengals, being named to three Pro Bowls in Cincinnati and taking home the 1988 NFL MVP Award.
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