Shedeur Sanders compares himself to Tom Brady after stunning NFL draft fall to fifth round

Shedeur Sanders compared himself to nan G.O.A.T.

Asked during Browns rookie minicamp astir nan proposal he received from his mentor Tom Brady aft he slipped to nan 5th information of nan NFL draft, Sanders didn’t deficiency confidence.

“My communicative is going to beryllium similar,” Sanders told reporters.

“I was a late-round draught pick. But we’re present now, truthful nary of that worldly matters. It conscionable mattered connected nan (draft) day. I’m conscionable excited to beryllium present and fresh to work.”

Brady famously went from nan No. 199 prime (sixth round) successful nan 2000 draught to a seven-time Super Bowl victor and nan NFL grounds holder for profession passing yards and touchdowns.

Sanders, who was projected to spell arsenic precocious arsenic No. 3 to nan Giants, unpredictably fell each nan measurement to nan No. 144 pick.

The Browns really drafted backmost Dillon Gabriel successful nan 3rd information earlier circling backmost to waste and acquisition up for Sanders.

The absorbing thing, of course, is that Brady could’ve prevented Sanders’ descent astatine immoderate constituent by exercising immoderate authority arsenic a number proprietor of nan Raiders who is heavy progressive successful shot operations.

But Brady said that he near nan draught successful nan hands of wide head John Spytek.

“It’s a bully question,” Brady said of Sanders’ draught fall during an quality connected nan “Impaulsive” podcast. “I wasn’t a portion of immoderate information process. That’s nan problem pinch media. Everyone tin opportunity immoderate nan f–k they want. I really texted Shedeur because I cognize him very well. I said, ‘Dude, immoderate happens, wherever you spell … that’s your first day. Day 2 matters much than nan draft.”

That seemed to beryllium nan connection that Sanders repackaged earlier his 2nd practice.

The Raiders drafted North Dakota State backmost Cam Miller successful nan sixth round, aft Sanders was gone.

Brady played against Shedeur’s begetter and caput coach astatine Colorado – Hall of Famer Deion Sanders – erstwhile some were successful nan NFL.