Get ready, boys and girls. The 2025 NFL Draft is scheduled to begin on Thursday, April 24, 2025, and will conclude on Saturday, April 26. The Draft is supposed to be an analysis, almost a prophesy regarding the heralded success of players coming out of college football. One of the standout quarterbacks who currently performed at a high level in college is Shedeur Sanders, the son of NFL Hall-of-Fame defensive back, Deion Sanders.
Many folks, pundits and peons alike, have made the pilgrimage to the shrine of ESPN NFL guru Mel Kiper Jr., seeking guidance and clarity regarding the NFL Draft since 1984. But the picks of Kiper have been far more wrong than right. However, folks continue to honor his picks as if they are scriptures from the bible of the NFL.
According to ask.com: “When it comes to evaluating the accuracy of any mock draft analyst, it is essential to understand that predicting the outcome of an NFL Draft is an incredibly challenging task. With numerous variables such as team needs, trades, and unexpected surprises on draft day itself, no one can claim 100 percent accuracy.
“That being said, Mel Kiper Jr. has had his fair share of successes and misses throughout his career. He has correctly predicted some early-round selections accurately while also missing on others. It is important to remember that even if a player is projected to be selected in a specific spot but ends up being chosen by another team earlier or later than anticipated does not necessarily mean the analyst was wrong about their talent evaluation.”
Kiper recently scored a 4.5 out of 32 teams’ success rate. Make sure that the success rate of your Primary Care Physician is at least 16 out of 32 success rate. Even at that rate, your doctor has graveside manner 50 percent of the time as well as bedside manner.
On March 11, 2025, writer Andrew Hughes posted an article on sportingnews.com: “Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders falling down NFL Draft boards for unrighteous reason, according to surprising source.”
The following is an excerpt from that article. “Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders could see a major Draft-night slide according to Urban Meyer, who shared on ‘The Herd’ what he heard about the ‘Grown QB’ ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.”
League sources allegedly told Meyer that Shedeur’s Big 12 schedule in 2024, and apparently his Pac-12 schedule in 2023, wasn’t strong enough competition to inspire confidence in Deion Sanders’ youngest son under center.
“I called a GM friend of mine, and he’s (Sanders) slipped a little bit here, and the reason he’s slipping is they’re looking at the competition that he played. I don’t know if I necessarily agree with that because what I saw is a guy that’s athletic enough to get out of trouble, a live arm, stays alive, competes his butt off, and he’s always on the run because his offensive line struggled. And this year, they were a little bit better on the offensive line at Colorado but not much. But I understand throughout the NFL there’s a concern about if he can make the throws in the tight windows because in the Big 12 Conference he didn’t have to do that very much,” Meyer said to Colin Cowherd.
“You look at his big plays, a lot of them were on the run, and that’s not necessarily what they’re looking for in the NFL. They want a guy that can drop back and make that tight window throw. There’s some question marks if he can do that,” Meyer continued.
Wha, wha, what? That’s called extending the play, duh? There they go again, slicing and dicing the value of a young quarterback of color.
First and foremost, Shedeur Sanders did not make up the schedule. Second, “they want a guy that can drop back and make that tight window throw. There’s some question marks if he can do that.” Pardon the interruption. Get the tractor ready because it’s starting to become a little smelly out here in the pasture.
More than likely, Shedeur Sanders had a football put in his hands shortly after he entered this world. His father, Deion, was brilliant because he tutored his sons Shilo and Shedeur about the intricacies of football, one on the offensive side of the ball and the other on the defensive side of the ball. They say many negative things about Shedeur Sanders, but the one thing that they dare not say is that Shedeur Sanders lacks football intellect.
In the past, there have been additional family-centered NFL careers as well. Bob and Brian Griese; Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning; Emery and Kent Nix; Phil, Chris and Matt Simms; David and Charlie Whitehurst; and Oliver and Andrew Luck. All of these family-connected careers have been celebrated with zeal by the National Football League. Let’s take a glance in our rear-view mirrors at 10 of the less-than-stellar careers of over-hyped quarterbacks drafted in the first round. 10. Christian Ponder, 9. Paxton Lynch, 8. Brandon Weeden, 7. Josh Rosen, 6. Jake Locker, 5. Dwayne Haskins, 4. Mitch Trubisky, 3. Tim Tebow, 2. Johnny Manziel, 1. JaMarcus Russell. Those are just of a few QBs listed that are certified draft pick “duds” that have fleeced the NFL during the recent past of “draft-mania.” The two players who failed miserably as far as I am concerned are Johnny Manziel and Tim Tebow. After the failures of Tim Tebow, the sports public tried to use his religion as a smokescreen to cover his athletic shortcomings by anointing him for sainthood. Johnny Manziel created a brand of hype-ball titled: “Johnny Football.” It should have been named “Johnny fools-ball” because Manziel fooled everyone, and got paid, along with his possible ‘secretary of hype, Mel Kiper Jr.
Get ready for the 2025 NFL Draft. Hopefully, the selections will be more geared toward truth and reality.
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