Keeler: Shedeur Sanders will be better NFL QB than Jaxson Dart, first-round slide or not

NFL scouts are worried Shedeur Sanders is gonna get killed If not by opposing linebackers then by his own teammates His dad being his coach for so long love it or hate it everything he s done has been under a microscope Ourlads com analyst Dave Syvertsen advised me earlier in the week The postgames where you re throwing your teammates under the bus that wouldn t fly in the NFL Especially when your dad s not in the locker room with you And therein lies the rub Shedeur heard his name called dozens of times on Thursday night Just not by anybody at the podium in Green Bay If you re looking for a reason why a guy who just got his number retired at CU wasn t drafted in the first round of the NFL draft well it s a lot of things It s Coach Prime It s Nebraska taking too several sacks and Nebraska blaming your offensive line It s hero ball It s Travis Hunter catching every ball at CU that was thrown within feet of him But mostly it s the uncertainty When I ve requested evaluators about Shedeur the same two questions usually got bounced back at me What happens when stuff hits the fan Is he coachable First one Don t know Second Yes with qualifiers The upside of having Tom Brady on speed dial is that you ve got the GOAT s ear The downside is that when you can call up Rembrandt for tips on brush strokes why would you ever listen exclusively to your art educator Shedeur watched the first round from a custom room with his Legendary brand emblazoned everywhere Which in hindsight was seemingly not the best general rebuttal against all the anonymous criticism NFL teams want hungry and humble The younger Sanders is hungrier than he gets credit for We gave No grief about his jersey retirement on the heels of a - career mark But what would say Steven Montez s record have been over games at CU with the same offensive line And same skill guys Not over that s for dang sure If you re good enough NFL teams will happily cough and look the other way until it s bad for business Jon Cooper associate general manager at the Ourlads scouting function a straight-shooter who s been doing this forever explained me Monday he d given Deion Sanders son a second-round grade So did Syvertsen even though Sanders had just shattered nearly every major passing record at CU with a pocket made of paper m ch I m not a political guy but it reminded me of politics where you either love him and you have to hate the other side or you hate him and have to love the other side Syvertsen declared of Shedeur To me it seems like if I had to point to one thing it s the Nebraska loss last fall early in the year where he directly threw his offensive line under the bus That was a huge red flag for me And that was one to a lot of people He ll take all the love from a positive situation that you can get And the minute he gets in a negative situation he ll point the finger Dave s a good egg but I don t know if that s entirely true Or fair Shedeur never dodged a postgame news conference while he was healthy win or lose over his two seasons at CU With independent media he was both accountable and present The only questions I can recall Shedeur actively dodging were mine and that was midway through when I d questioned about former offensive coordinator Sean Lewis demotion And he wasn t a jerk about it We moved on I think we knew going in that he took a lot of sacks Cooper noted And that he had particular issues if he didn t have a clean pocket We kind of knew that going in Related Articles Keeler Avalanche Jared Bednar somehow revealed way to ruin Gabe Landeskog Night at Ball Arena Keeler Why is CU Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders NFL draft stock all over the place It s less about Deion Sanders than chosen might think Keeler Avalanche requirements Gabe Landeskog back for Match to teach Stars Mason Marchment specific manners Renck vs Keeler How bad are Rockies Like Mets White Sox Keeler CU Buffs spring football takeaway Best thing Deion Sanders can do for QB Julian Lewis is redshirt him Honestly It s about the sacks Or rather what s perceived to be Shedeur s lack of speed when it comes to mitigating commented sacks To put it in purely local terms Sanders does certain of the things that Russell Wilson did with the Broncos that drove Sean Payton bonkers At CU third-and- became just another fun chance to watch Hunter pull off particular kind of midair acrobatics that nobody had ever seen before In the NFL it ll get your backside cut and your coach fired The humble thing well that s not happening Sanders might wind up taking a pay cut when he eventually signs his rookie deal But if Jaxson Dart winds up being a better pro than Shedeur I won t just buy a pair of CU shorts I ll eat them Want more sports news Sign up for the Sports Omelette to get all our analysis on Denver s teams