Even before the Colorado QB dropped out of the first round and then the next two on Thursday and Friday of the 2025 NFL Draft, Kiper had Sanders higher on his big board than No. 1 pick Cam Ward. In his mock drafts, Sanders was a first-rounder.

Not being picked in the first three rounds of the 2025 NFL draft doesn't seem to have dimmed Shedeur Sanders' spirits. In a post on X, Sanders wrote "another day another opportunity to get a chance to play the game I love" hours before the start of the final day of the draft.