NFL Insider Says Shedeur Sanders Had 'Biggest Slide in NFL History' During 2025 Draft

Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders' fall to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft is still generating debates around the NFL, but one insider didn't mince words.

"I think it’s the biggest slide in NFL history," a league source told Henry McKenna of Fox Sports.

Sanders was expected to be a first-round pick until reports about his lackluster pre-draft interviews raised questions about his draft stock. Still, no one predicted that he would've fallen all the way to the fifth round. He was the sixth quarterback off the board and the second signal-caller selected by the Browns, who used a third-round pick to add Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel.

"He’s a good person, but people didn’t like the personality," another league source told McKenna regarding Sanders and his draft process. "He’s the biggest celebrity since Johnny Manziel to enter the draft."

However, as McKenna pointed out, Sanders didn't share the same character issues that Manziel did when he entered the draft in 2014. The trait that he does share with Manziel is his celebrity status before even entering the league, and that may have worked against him.

"Sanders has the kind of energy and personality that fills up a room. But that big personality didn’t always mesh with NFL executives. And like Manziel, Sanders didn’t come out of his pre-draft interviews with impressive results, multiple sources confirmed to FOX Sports," McKenna wrote.

It won't be easy for Sanders to prove his detractors wrong as he works his way up from being QB5 on the Browns, but he will surely be driven to show that he should've been selected higher in this year's draft.