Giants Reportedly Known to Be 'Extremely Hard' on QBs in Meetings amid Shedeur Rumors

Shedeur Sanders' predraft interview process, including his one with the New York Giants, has generated an endless supply of headlines and discourse, but the NFC East team reportedly has a reputation when it comes to such meetings.

Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reported Sunday that "quarterbacks disliking their private visits to the Giants isn't uncommon.

"… For starters, their system isn't quarterback-friendly from a verbiage standpoint, and they're extremely hard on QBs—both rookies and veterans—in these private sessions to see what they can handle. Sanders isn't the first quarterback to come away from a visit there dismayed." 

Cabot pointed out the Cleveland Browns, who ended up taking the Colorado product in the fifth round, found Sanders "somewhat introverted as opposed to brash and arrogant," which was notable word choice since NFL insider Josina Anderson reported in March an NFL quarterbacks coach called him "brash" and "arrogant" during a predraft interview.

Cabot also relayed a report from The Ringer’s Todd McShay regarding Sanders' meeting with the Giants in which "an install package came in. Preparation wasn't there for it. [He] got called out on it. Didn't like that. Brian [Daboll] didn’t appreciate him not liking it."

That meeting has been under the spotlight even more since the Giants decided to select Jaxson Dart instead of Sanders in the first round, which was one of the first clues the reigning Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year was going to slide further than some expected during the draft.

Albert Breer of The MMQB appeared on 98.5 The Sports Hub's Zolak & Bertrand also reported on the meeting and said (via Darren Hartwell of NBC Sports Boston), "They give players an install, and there are mistakes intentionally put in the install. He didn't catch them and got called on it, and it didn't go well after that. ... He was pissed that they did that to him."

Breer also noted another team asked Sanders to explain an interception during an NFL Combine meeting only to be met with quite the response.

"He throws a bad interception. It was a deep throw early in the game," Breer said. "They go in the meeting, they show the interception and they say, 'What happened here?' (Sanders responds,) 'Well, I like to get into a rhythm earlier in the game.'

"They get into it over that, and (Sanders') conclusion is, 'Well, maybe I'm not a fit for you.'"

The anecdotes are notable, as CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones reported (2:38 mark) that some teams in the league felt Sanders "did not give it his all" and "more or less sandbagged" interviews with teams he didn't want to draft him:

As for the Giants, Sanders isn't alone if he believes they tested him more than other teams.

Last month, Kyle McCord appeared on The Rich Eisen Show and said (1:20 mark) the NFC East team "definitely put me to the test. They wanted to know how well you process things, how quickly can you pick up information. So, of all the teams, they definitely were the one that tested me the most, but it was good. It was a lot of fun."

McCord ended up going in the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round.

As for Sanders, it seems like his meetings with the Browns went well, and he will now begin his career with an opportunity to compete for immediate playing time in a quarterback room that includes an injured Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel.

Only then can he put his predraft process fully behind him.