BOULDER, Colo. — The future for Colorado football looks so bright under coach Deion Sanders, Laviska Shenault said, he brought shades to the 2023 spring football game.
“It’s somebody that’s got a lot of respect to his name. A lot of culture to his name,” Shenault, the former Buffs star and current Carolina Panthers wideout, told The Denver Post before Saturday’s sold-out spring game at Folsom Field. “And I feel like this place needs a little — you need somebody with his type of, I don’t know how to say it, but his type of (rep), to be here.”
With that, Shenault, who led FBS football in receptions per game in the fall of 2018 while playing for the Buffs, flashed a bright smile. One that matched the one worn by former CU teammate Davion Taylor, who sat next to him signing autographs for fans at the Buffs’ indoor practice facility an hour before the spring game.
