I got a text from a buddy a couple of weeks ago. Broncos fan. Watches college football casually. He wanted to know why Cam Ward (Miami) had so clearly become the consensus top quarterback in the 2025 NFL draft over Shedeur Sanders -- a player who, every time he watched Colorado, seemed to always have the big throw in his bag, always escape the sack, always lift the team and strap it to his back.
It was a fair question. Throw out all the trappings of the scouting process -- traits and developmental arcs and personalities and leadership and culture fits and scheme fits and other buzzwords -- and Sanders looks like a really good pro quarterback.