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The unexpected fall of Sheduer Sanders of a first round choice provided for a selection of fifth round was the most polarizing subject of the NFL recovery last week.
The longtime analyst of the ESPN, Mel Kiper Jr., was one of the ardent defenders of Sanders, and the former fall of the Colorado star at the Browns of Cleveland seemed to leave the broadcaster in a state of disbelief.
Shortly after the name of Sanders got out of the painting, Kiper unleashed on the franchises of the NFL, which led to a confrontation between him and the colleague received Davis.
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The ESPN host “College Gameday” received Davis during the Rose Bowl between Penn Stateny Lions and Utah Utes on January 2, 2023, in Pasadena, California. (Ric Tapia / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Kiper said the NFL had been “distraught” for five decades by evaluating the quarters. Kiper appeared even perplexed because of his belief that Sanders is “one of the most difficult quarters you have ever seen”.
The NFL analyst Louis Riddick then told Kiper that the question was not whether Sanders could play the quarter but, from the team’s point of view, if a team wanted it. Davis agreed with Riddick, who added: “The project spoke.”
The air spit has triggered questions about the question of whether a certain level of animosity existed between Davis and Kiper. But during a recent appearance on the host “Do’t @ Me With Dan Dakich” from Outkick “, the” ESPN “host College Gameday” clearly indicated that he had no problem with his colleague.
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Davis has recognized the work that Kiper is loaded as a project analyst.
ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. during the NFL 2011 draft at the Radio City Music Hall in New York on April 28, 2011. (Howard Smith / USA TODAY SPORTS)
“First of all, and I don’t do this thing Pete Thamel accuses me, where I say two nice things about someone, then offer a criticism or something,” Davis told Dakich. “But the reason why there were … whatever the number (fans) to Detroit the previous year is largely due to what Mel did for the draft.
“And Mel’s work is to make his classification of players and defend them. And that did not bother me that he was disagreeing, and I don’t mind saying everything he meant when we are there. But I thought that, as a group, the part that we neglect was probably the philosophy of the Occam razor – we do not know of course.”
A screen shows the quarter-rear of Colorado Shemer Sanders after being chosen by the Cleveland Browns with the 144th choice in total on the third day of the NFL draft on April 26, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo / jeff dresserson)
Davis then underlined the manipulation widely examined by Sanders of the pre-Rôti process, arguing that he could have played a role in the fall of quarter-arre.
“But it was almost certain that, at that time in the project, that something had happened in the process before the cog involving Sheder Sanders who prevented the teams from taking it,” added Davis. “Now I think it’s a reasonable debate if you say that it is not the Top 5 of the quarter on a band right now.
“I am not sure that it is reasonable that it is not a guy type in the first or in the second round. It seems a little unreasonable. So, if you go beyond, then something else probably happened. And my only point was that I did not think that we were giving this credibility.”
Davis said that his relationship with Kiper was in a good place and that he likes to work with him.
“It’s good. I didn’t even know there was a problem until I started to receive SMS as you said,” he said. “It is sort of an integral part of what we do. Sometimes, for the good of the analyst and for the good of the show, you challenge their position. Mel is great. I love working with Mel. And it is the reason why the project is what it is, in my opinion.”
Shortly after the Browns selected Sanders on the last day of the project, he went to social networks to share a short but emotional message: “Thank you God.”
Sanders finished the 2024 season in Colorado with 4,134 yards by the pass. He will join a quarter-back room crowded in Cleveland with Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel.
