Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders Takes Shot at Quinn Ewers, Other Texas HS Players

Deion Sanders' son and quarterback had an odd take on high school players out of Texas.

There is no coach-quarterback duo in college football that has a bigger platform than Colorado's Deion Sanders and his son Shedeur Sanders.

The two took the sport by storm in 2023 in what was their first year at the Power 5 level, and while they finished the year 4-8, it was widely considered to be a success considering how poor the program had been performing. However, with their massive platform comes scrutiny about pretty much everything they say, and Shedeur Sanders is currently facing some heat for recent comments he made about players from the highest level of Texas high school football.

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When speaking to the media recently and addressing how he has faced a different sense of adversity then most, caught in the crosshairs, were high school players who played in Texas' 6A classification. The level that notable players such as Texas' Quinn Ewers, Alabama's Jalen Milroe, former Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, former Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, and fellow former Sooner and Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts all played at.

"I came from a private school, so at the end of the day, I dealt with a lot of negativity, a lot of hate, a lot of everything I've done dealt with already, year after year," Sanders said. "I came from a small private school. All the other kids were going Power Five, and they went to big Texas 6A schools and stuff. I don't see those same kids around. I don't see them excelling in their programs or whatever they're doing. So, I've always been against the odds in different ways."

While the portion about him dealing with a lot of negativity is certainly true considering what family he is from, the shot at Texas High School football has not gone over well with Texans, fans, or analysts. According to Ben Baby of ESPN, Sanders ranked No. 41 in Total QBR last season among Power Five quarterbacks. Baby also revealed that at least eight of the quarterbacks that ranked ahead of him played at a Texas public high school.

While he may have been trying to bring to light the difficulties of being the son of an icon in the sport, all he did was cause a flurry of social media attacks towards him and his father in what is a bizarre case of irony considering he started off talking about negativity.

Sanders and Colorado will be playing in the Big 12 next season as they were one of the four teams that joined the conference from the Pac-12. He is expected to be one of the best quarterbacks in the country, but he will also as we have seen over the past couple of days, receive his fair share of criticism and comments like this will certainly come back to haunt him.