Shedeur Sanders has finally found an NFL home.
After a winding evaluation process that cast him as one of the NFL draft’s biggest mysteries — and following a three-round slide that saw him bypassed by multiple QB-needy franchises — the Colorado Buffaloes quarterback was chosen in Saturday’s fifth round by the Cleveland Browns. Taken No. 166 overall, the pick comes following a draft slide that stunned even some of his most critical evaluators.
It also comes in the wake of a last-minute spate of controversy earlier this week, after NFL Network quoted multiple anonymous league sources who hammered Sanders with sharp criticism over his level of play and pre-draft interviews.