As name after name flashed across the screen, the room stayed still. No champagne pop. No phone buzz. No camera-ready moment. Just silence. For a quarterback once projected as a Day 1 pick, Shedeur Sanders watched 143 other names get called before his—finally landing in Cleveland as the 144th overall selection. It wasn’t just a slide; it was a statement, loud and debated. But in the middle of the noise, one voice waited. Deion Sanders Jr.—the older brother, the digital architect behind Colorado’s media machine, and the quietest Sanders in the room—wasn’t firing off tweets or going live with rants. Instead, he waited. And when he did respond, it was poetic: exactly 144 seconds long.
“You can’t have your dad saying, ‘I’m going to come put a quarterback coach on blast who said you were arrogant.’ So, he can’t be criticized?”. This analysis by a prominent NFC executive after Deion Sanders gave his statement on taking the “high road” isn’t an isolated opinion. The internet is filled with criticisms and videos analyzing Shedeur’s draft case and concluding why he ‘deserved’ to be a 5th-round pick. But if you were family? How would you respond? By taking on a war of words with the media, or like how Deion Sanders Jr just did?
Bucky has been extensively supportive of Shedeur throughout the pre- and post-draft process. Like the time when the Giants passed on Shedeur to take Jaxson Dart, and Deion Jr responded brutally by retweeting a post on X.. “This is crazy !!! No wonder the GAINTS DONT WIN S—“. But this was just frustration, not targeting anyone; it was the baggage that the family bore after expecting Shedeur to be a top draft pick.
Deion Jr could have supported and bolstered Shedeur’s case. After all, he was the one who, with his ‘Well Off Media’ platform, increased the Buffs’ social media footprint by almost 500%. But apart from some brief X posts, the guy went radio silent until the draft ended. But now? Well, after going relatively mute and not attracting any controversy, Deion Sanders Jr has just posted a 144-second video that is the ultimate bombshell for the critics.
The video shows Shedeur as the main protagonist, as the song with the main 4 words ‘They All Fall Down‘ is running in the background. We see Shedeur’s crucial moments, his deep, accurate passes, his resilient sacks, and most of all his chemistry with Travis Hunter. The lyrics run, “Cuz whoever speak on my brothers, they all fall down. Anybody talk about my sisters, man, they all fall down. Anybody go against my family, man, they all fall down. Anybody go against my [ __ ] man, they all fall [Music] down….”
The song and the video are the Sanders family’s final (or perhaps just the latest) answer to critics who doubted Shedeur and all those 31 NFL GMs who decided Shedeur wasn’t ‘good enough’. Well, guess what? The video is just a powerful sneak peek into Shedeur’s incredible season, where he notched up 4,000+ yards at 74% efficiency. But now that the deed is done and Shedeur is drafted as the 144th pick by the Browns. The video may also act as a teaser for the great things that will come from Shedeur with the Browns.
Deion Sanders Jr unites Browns QB room?
We all know that Dillon Gabriel was drafted well ahead of Shedeur in the third round. While we can debate all day whether Gabriel deserved to be ahead of him or not, trolling him for the deed and hating him for it is despicable. This is something Deion Jr also urged fans not to do, as he requested them not to target the former Oregon QB.
“I think questions like that divide the team,” The QB said ahead of the Browns’ minicamp. Then, when Gabriel was asked about Shedeur’s hype and if it affects him, he chose not to focus on ‘distractions’. “Show love to everybody, bro, stop causing division on that team, man. Everybody’s young dude trynna reach their goals, man, so show love to everybody, bro. Show love to the 1st round picks, show love to Gabriel. Don’t hate Gabriel, bro, love to my brother. You know I’m saying, you can support both of them, bro trynna reach his dreams too“.
Well, currently the Browns camp has 4 QBs, including Shedeur, and the room is probably the most crowded in the NFL. They have 40-year-old Joe Flacco as the primary QB. Behind him is Kenny Pickett, hoping to find his feet after stints at the Steelers and Eagles. Third is Dillon Gabriel, and last is Shedeur Sanders. We also saw the same hierarchy in Browns’ recent mini-camp as Gabriel took 7-on-7 snaps before Shedeur. But this was just the start, right? There’s still time for Shedeur to prove his mettle at the Browns.
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