Shedeur Sanders Talks Bad Interview Rumors, Says Some in NFL 'Offended' By Approach

Shedeur Sanders said some NFL franchises have been "offended" by what he described as an honest approach to interviews ahead of the 2025 draft.

"When I go visit these coaches and when I go to all these different franchises, I ask them truly what I think and how I feel," Sanders recently told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero, per NFL.com's Nick Shook. "Some get offended, some like it, some don't. Make some people uncomfortable, some people invite that.

"They know what type of person and what type of player they're gonna get out of me, so I just have to make sure, you know, what type of culture or what type of dynamic I'm going to have with them also."

Sanders spoke with Rapoport and Pelissero in Pittsburgh after a visit with the Steelers, per Shook. He told Kay Adams on Thursday's Up And Adams Show that the visit was "a 10."

Reports that there was a personality clash between at least one team and Sanders started surfacing in early March, when NFL insider Josina Anderson wrote that a quarterbacks coach from a team with a top-seven draft pick said the Colorado quarterback had seemed "brash" and "arrogant" when interviewing with the team.

The Ringer's Todd McShay meanwhile reported that two teams with top-10 picks said "they did not feel like Shedeur Sanders cared all that much about what that organization thought of him."

Media attention regarding Sanders' throwing during Colorado's pro day in early April then led to multiple NFL players debating his technique on social media.

Sanders told Rapoport and Pelissero it was "funny to see what they come up with next" while reporting about him ahead of the draft.

"At first it was that his arm wasn't strong — I had a lot of touchdowns in my college career. Then it was I pat the ball — that wasn't a thing before pro day," Sanders told Rapoport and Pelissero. "So, I don't get in trouble off the field, so it's kind of hard for them to create storylines for the media.

"Keep that going, though. It's just gonna be fun with the next story."

Sanders is listed as the No. 23 overall prospect on Bleacher Report's latest 2025 NFL Draft Big Board. With Miami's Cam Ward widely expected to be the first quarterback taken off the board, Sanders is a candidate to be the second signal-caller drafted when the draft begins April 24 in Green Bay.