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After SheDer Sanders fell from the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday, President Donald Trump plunged the situation in the political field on Friday afternoon.
Trump’s Trum’s social post calling the owners of the NFL “stupid” so as not to write Sanders and calling the quarter-arrière to “choose immediately” has become one of the most unexpected moments of an unprecedented project slide.
Sanders was not finally chosen “immediately” as Trump commanded it, while the neighborhood slipped second and third laps later on Friday evening. Sanders did not end up being taken before the fifth round on Saturday, with the 144th choice by the Browns of Cleveland.
However, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt took the freedom to credit Trump’s position for Sanders to be chosen at all.
“All I would say is that the president published a statement and a few laps later, he was drafted. So I think the facts speak for themselves now,” Leavitt told journalists on Monday.
However, the famous NFL Leigh Steinberg agent is not so quick to credit Trump for helping Sander to take.
“I would like to be, in a very divided country where there are extreme opinions on both sides of the spectrum, as political as possible,” Steinberg told PK Press Club Digital of what his reaction would be if Trump called for one of his customers to be written.
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From left to right, President Donald Trump, Sheder Sanders and Stephen A. Smith. (Getty Images)
Steinberg, who represented eight record players taken with the first overall choice of NFL draft, does not think that Trump’s post had a big impact on the result of Sanders draft.
“I do not think so because the teams are closely concentrated in their war rooms across the country, and they know who they want, and I do not see a team freeing it because of the involvement of a political figure,” said Steinberg.
However, Steinberg believes that Trump’s weighing has increased the scope of the situation in terms of advertising.
“It certainly did it because it involved the entire public segment that follows the president but might not have aware of what was going on,” said Steinberg.
In addition, with additional attention can be an unexpected advantage for Sanders, even if it did not help its drawing stock.
Steinberg said that he thought Trump’s praise for the quarter would ultimately improve Sanders’ reputation value and its marketing as the NFL pro in the future, now that he has a team.
Sanders had to face the first overall choice of draft and potentially was to be presumed immediately as a team starter.
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However, Sanders’ reports intervene badly with the teams and rumor problems emerged in the months and weeks preceding the draft, and he finally underwent an unprecedented slide until the fifth round.
Steinberg himself was surprised because he expected Sanders to be chosen in the second round. The agent, who has been athletes for over 50 years, says that Sanders’ draft shift was the most surprising draft slide he has ever seen.
“It is played by a national audience, and it deforms the time because it seems endless and the player is rejected and rejected and rejected, and it is like a death by a thousand cuts,” said Steinberg. “It is as a precipitated fall as I saw it during my 51 years.”
As a veteran agent with a background of quarter-back in record, Steinberg thinks that there are certain things that Sanders could have done to help his rescue stock in 2025.
On the one hand, Steinberg says that the quarter-rear could have benefited from a clean agent, while Sanders chose to stand for representing himself with his father and former coach of the Deion Sanders college.
If the family had chosen to go with an agent instead, then Steinberg expects that they would have organized an interview simulation with a director general of the NFL before the NFL combination, as Steinberg has done with many of their customers in the past.
“We bring in a managing director who prepares a player for these individual visits to the combine harvester,” said Steinberg.
“The players are preparing for all the questions to ask and the player advances the appropriate attitude, that is to say that they must be self-confident but not arrogant.”
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The quarter of the Colorado Buffaloes, Sheder Sanders, n ° 2, speaks in ESPN after the window of the University of Colorado NFL at the Indo Practice CU on April 4, 2025. (Images Michael Ciaglo-Imagn)
Steinberg also says that he would tell a quarter-Arrière client to retreat on social media activity and try to gain advertising if he thought it had become too much, if he had such a client.
“All feeling that it would be an atmosphere of circus for the team that drafted it would not be something they would like for their culture,” said Steinberg.
“Deion Sanders is great, but if the way they used social media raised concerns that it would not be a discreet team player, a humble player entering a team, it could have influenced someone.”
However, Steinberg thinks that Sanders is still equipped to have a successful NFL career, and believes that he can compete in the quarter-back position from the team from his recruit year.
