Shedeur Sanders is officially an NFL player, getting drafted in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. His journey to this point was long, strange, and winding, and that's before getting into his shocking draft slide. Sanders was widely expected to go in the first two rounds of the draft at worst, yet ended up available well into the fifth round. Regardless of the how or the why, though, Sanders is a Brown and can now turn his attention towards maximizing his potential as a football player.
In the meantime there's plenty to discuss and dissect about Sanders's fall and final destination. As those discussions happened on Saturday, an old tweet of his father's resurfaced.
