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Where the Sanders clan really fucked up was trying to dictate terms to NFL teams through the media.
Deion's whole stint at Colorado has just been a matter of hype exceeding extremely low expectations. Colorado fans are just happy not to be complete and utter bottom feeders like they were before, and they'll afraid Deion will leave and make them irrelevant again so they're were never going to point out Deion's mediocrity, any more than his friends in the media were. As long as he stayed in his lane, Deion, and by extension, Shedur, were relatively safe from scorn regardless of how meh thy really were.
But then he recruited his friends in the media to start pre-emptively announcing where Shedur should be drafted and that was a slap in the face to all the NFL front offices. Because it was the same hysterical overvaluation for obvious personal reasons but now instead of just trying to get one over on the plebs they were trying to pressure actual pros who knew better. Not a single fucking team had Shedur down as a first round pick or anything close to it but the social justice squad was out there on ESPN laying the groundwork for "if you *don't* waste your first rounder on him we're calling it racism" implied threat. And the league, as a whole, told them where they could shove it.
Deion and his cronies overplayed their hands, found out they had no leverage whatsoever and ended up damaging the career of the guy they were trying to shill for. If Kendrick Perkins and SAS had just shut the fuck up and let things play out Shedur might have just been like a fourth round pick or something. But GMs were so insulted by this half-assed politicking they just stayed away entirely because if they guy isn't even that good, why put up with this shit at all? There's lots of mediocre prospects, might as well draft one whose daddy doesn't think he runs the league because he finished above .500 in college once