Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason said this week that he spoke with three different personnel people in the NFL that removed Sanders off their draft boards completely because the team owners made it clear they did not want him. "Shedeur Sanders just torpedoed himself," Esiason said.

The hit rate is so bad on quarterbacks [that] if you can have two at-bats instead of one, I don't think it's a bad idea,” one NFC executive told Yahoo Sports.

In a three-day spectacle of cringe, University of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders fell from a potential top-five overall selection to the fifth round.