The New York Giants are in line to select second overall in the 2025 NFL draft and will likely be in a position to select a top quarterback.
If they plan on taking Deion Sanders’ son Shedeur, they might want to make sure Papa approves first.
The younger Sanders is high on the list of quarterbacks in next year’s draft class. He plays at the University of Colorado, where his Hall of Fame dad is the head coach.
If the “wrong team” selects Shadeur, Deion appears to be ready to put his thumb on the scale and steer him away.
“Yeah, but I’m not gonna do it publicly, I’d do it privately,” Sanders said this week in an interview on Fox Sports 1. “I’m going to be a dad until the cows come home, and with [Colorado wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter] as well.”
The question is, are the Giants one of those “wrong” teams?
We likely won’t know until we get closer to the draft in April, but Deion is sending some salvos across the bow of any team that he deems unsatisfactory for his talented son.
Shadeur is predicted to go high in the first round, possibly in the top five. Teams that select that high in the draft are there for a reason — they’re not very good. The Giants fall into that category.
History isn’t on the Giants’ side in this scenario, and they know it. In 2004, they benefited from such an instance when Archie Manning told the San Diego Chargers not to draft his son Eli.
The Chargers defied the elder Manning, selected Eli anyway and then shopped him around. Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi quickly swooped in. You know the rest.