Shedeur Sanders is expected to be among the top picks in the 2025 NFL draft and may even go No. 1 overall.
Despite this, the Colorado star doesn’t plan to be in Green Bay to hear his name called by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Sanders was asked in an interview with Overtime if he planned to attend the 2025 NFL draft. His response:
‘Nah, we’ll most likely do Colorado or Dallas,’ Sanders said. ‘We didn’t decide fully yet. We plan on doing it, like an event thing, and where it’ll be fun.’
Sanders’ revelation isn’t a surprise. He previously indicated he wouldn’t be attending the NFL draft in a January episode of his podcast 2Legendary with Shedeur Sanders.
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The Colorado quarterback isn’t the first top prospect to eschew the NFL draft in recent seasons. It has become more commonplace since the 2020 draft, which was hosted remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, Trevor Lawrence and Travon Walker chose not to attend the 2021 and 2022 drafts respectively despite being the No. 1 overall selections.
Sanders elaborated that his decision was largely about having his family and friends around when he is drafted. He didn’t believe it would be financially feasible for them to join him in Green Bay.
‘The only thing with going to the draft is I want to spend those moments with my people,’ Sanders told Overtime. ‘You got to think, having everybody come out [to Green Bay], bro, it’s going to be so expensive. So cost-wise, you’re saving a lot of money. You get to be around your people and all that.’
That’s why Sanders is considering Colorado, where he played during the final two years of his college career, and Dallas, where he grew up, as the locations for his draft party.
‘It’s not just me that was able to get to this point,’ Sanders said. ‘It’s like a team. It was a team thing and it was a team of people that helped me get to where I am now. So I want to be able to make sure I’m able to enjoy that with everybody and nobody be in uncomfortable situations just for traveling and just to show support.’
