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Shedeur Sanders compared himself to the G.O.A.T.
Asked during Browns rookie minicamp about the advice he received from his mentor Tom Brady after he slipped to the fifth round of the NFL draft, Sanders didn’t lack confidence.
“My story is going to be similar,” Sanders told reporters.
“I was a late-round draft pick. But we’re here now, so none of that stuff matters. It just mattered on the (draft) day. I’m just excited to be here and ready to work.”
Brady famously went from the No. 199 pick (sixth round) in the 2000 draft to a seven-time Super Bowl winner and the NFL record holder for career passing yards and touchdowns.
Sanders, who was projected to go as high as No. 3 to the Giants, unpredictably fell all the way to the No. 144 pick.
The Browns actually drafted quarterback Dillon Gabriel in the third round before circling back to trade up for Sanders.
The interesting thing, of course, is that Brady could’ve prevented Sanders’ slide at any point by exercising some authority as a minority owner of the Raiders who is heavily involved in football operations.
But Brady said that he left the draft in the hands of general manager John Spytek.
“It’s a good question,” Brady said of Sanders’ draft fall during an appearance on the “Impaulsive” podcast. “I wasn’t a part of any evaluation process. That’s the problem with media. Everyone can say whatever the f–k they want. I actually texted Shedeur because I know him very well. I said, ‘Dude, whatever happens, wherever you go … that’s your first day. Day 2 matters more than the draft.”
That seemed to be the message that Sanders repackaged before his second practice.
The Raiders drafted North Dakota State quarterback Cam Miller in the sixth round, after Sanders was gone.
Brady played against Shedeur’s father and head coach at Colorado – Hall of Famer Deion Sanders – when both were in the NFL.
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