Deion Sanders Makes Cryptic Post About Lying and Truth amid NFL Rumors About Shedeur

As reports continue to surface regarding Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders' massive slide to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft, his father Deion Sanders addressed the speculation in a cryptic manner.

"A lie don’t care who tells it or repeats it. Its goal is to be heard. The truth could be standing right in front of [you] consistently for years but [you] don’t see it because a lie is in your mind. The Truth may not be as popular as a lie but the Truth wins in the end," Sanders wrote in a tweet.

Prognosticators universally viewed Shedeur Sanders as a potential first-round draft pick after his strong career at Colorado. Instead, five quarterbacks were selected before him before the Browns used their fifth-round pick to draft him. Cleveland even passed on him two rounds earlier when it selected Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel in the third.

Many have been trying to figure out an explanation for Sanders' tumble down the draft board. ESPN's Dan Graziano reported during Monday's episode of Get Up that evaluators weren't revealing their true assessments of the 23-year-old leading up to the draft.

"The theory was that people inside these buildings were kind of scared to give their honest opinion of him because of the potential for criticism, the potential of Deion, and everything that's around Shedeur, to kind of come down on them," Graziano said.

The Athletic's Mike Jones also reported that there was a negative perception of Sanders' attitude, supporting reports that he rubbed teams the wrong way during the pre-draft interview process.

"Sanders instilled in his son a strong sense of self-belief," Jones stated. "But because the Prime Time way borders on the extreme, Deion also passed onto Shedeur an off-putting air that NFL talent evaluators perceived as arrogance and entitlement."

It will take quite some time to determine whether teams were right to pass up on Sanders, but the Browns are certainly hoping that he will have a productive career in the NFL.