Deion Sanders said Friday on the Tamron Hall Show ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft that he will step in for Shedeur Sanders and there are "couple of teams that I won't allow him to play for," hammering home a previous report that the Sanders family had a preference.
"It's not like who I would like for him to play for. It's a couple of teams that I won't allow him to play for," Deion Sanders said. "So it's not like that. But this is my profession. I know what's behind the curtain. We ain't got to get back there for me to understand what's behind the curtain and what's not prominent for my son. I'm not doing it."
Hall asked Sanders if Shedeur Sanders will heed his father's advice.
"Who? No, you must mean (NFL team) owners, not my son," Deion Sanders said.
The Tennessee Titans hold the No. 1 overall pick. Shedeur Sanders hinted throughout the 2024 season that the Las Vegas Raiders are his preferred landing spot, but the Titans are out front followed by the Cleveland Browns.
"I know where I want them to go," Deion Sanders said previously on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. "There's certain cities where it ain't going to happen. ...It's going to be an Eli (Manning). We ain't doing that."
The "Eli" saga, as Sanders recalls, goes back to when the multi-time Super Bowl champion declined to play for the San Diego Chargers, who took him No. 1 overall in 2004. That forced a trade to the New York Giants and the rest was history.
And after previously stating he had "no desire" to coach in the NFL, Deion Sanders changed his tune earlier this month on the possibility of leaving the Buffaloes. If it meant he could coach his sons Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders at the next level, he might reconsider. His sons, along with Heisman winner Travis Hunter, are expected to be selected in the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft.
Shedeur Sanders and Hunter are widely-projected as top 5 picks.
"You know what? The only way I would consider it is to coach my sons," Sanders said on "Good Morning America" last week.
Deion Sanders stopped short of saying he was looking to leave. His son earned labels such as as the "best pure passer" in the draft class, given his expertise in the Big 12 as one of the league's top players. Shedeur Sanders finished with 4,137 yards and 37 touchdown passes this fall for the nine-win Buffaloes.
Sanders rated as a four-star transfer in the 2023 portal cycle, following his father Colorado from Jackson State. He rated as a high three-star prospect coming out of Cedar Hill (Texas) Trinity Christian School in the 2021 class. Sanders ranked as the No. 37 quarterback and No. 75 overall recruit regardless of position in Texas at the time.
