Shedeur Sanders 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 huge 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. 144 overall, the pick comes following a draft slide that stunned even some of his most critical talent evaluators in the league.
Sanders and those in attendance at his watch site were ecstatic when his name was finally called:
Sanders tweeted "Thank you GOD" not long after it happened, then jumped into a pool with his socks on in celebration:
"We live by our board," Browns general manager Andrew Berry told the media after the pick.