Shedeur Sanders bashes top Texas Football stars despite many of them proving more successful than him
Shedeur Sanders, the son of multimillionaire Hall of Fame NFL star Deion Sanders, claimed in an interview this week that "he's always had the odds stacked against him" as he went out of his way to bash top former Texas football stars this week. Sanders played for a smaller private high school in Texas and […]
Shedeur Sanders, the son of multimillionaire Hall of Fame NFL star Deion Sanders, claimed in an interview this week that "he's always had the odds stacked against him" as he went out of his way to bash top former Texas football stars this week.
Sanders played for a smaller private high school in Texas and it clearly bothered him that all the top 6A Texas high school football players got more of the attention when it came to recruiting and hype heading into college. Shedeur, the son of Deion Sanders (Coach Prime) was quoted this week as saying:
"I came from a private school so, at the end of the day I dealt with a lot of negativity, a lot of hate, a lot of everything I done dealt with already, year after year…All the other kids was going [to] Power Five [programs] and they went to big Texas 6A [high] schools and stuff. I don't see those same kids around. I don't see them excelling in their programs or whatever they're doing. So, I always been against the odds in different ways."
What? First off, Sanders is one of the most well-resourced football recruits and players of all time. The "odds" were never stacked against him having success being the son of Deion Sanders, one of the biggest names and most impactful figures in the entire sport of football.
And second, Texas 6A football is home to perhaps the best public high school football in the nation. It's a religion there. It's a culture unlike any other among all sports on planet earth. And some of the best football players ever have come from the Texas 6A ranks. Not just in years past, but in Shedeur's own class, and every year immediately before and after.
In fact, at Mike Roach of Geaux247 pointed out earlier this week, two of the quarterbacks who started in the College Football Playoff this year were former Texas 6A high school quarterbacks. And both of them are objectively finding significantly greater success than Shedeur himself. Quinn Ewers (Texas) and Jalen Milroe (Alabama) have both become dominant starting quarterbacks for their teams. And both of them posted vastly superior meaningful rate stats compared to Shedeur in 2023 as well (not meaningless raw volume-based stats).
Several top 6A players have become stars at the big in-state college football programs too. From Conner Weigman (starting quarterback at Texas A&M), to likely first round pick this year Byron Murphy (dominant defensive tackle at Texas), to first round pick Quentin Johnston at TCU, Texas schools have been stacked with former 6A "big school" stars.
And some of the best former Texas 6A players actually leave the state to dominate for the best teams in the nation too. Harold Landry is one of the best linebackers in the game for LSU. Ollie Gordon just posted 2000 yards from scrimmage at Oklahoma State at running back. Bear Alexander has played key roles for both Georgia and USC along the defensive line.
Shedeur could not possibly be more wrong in his baseless statement attempting to prop himself up for "overcoming the odds" that he never had to overcome in the first place. Just another bad look for the power conference leader in sacks taken in 2023.
