When asked why he doesn’t want his father, Deion, to come to training camp, Shedeur Sanders, a rookie quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, said that he wants to “get where I want to go.”
Michael Irvin was informed by Deion, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, that Shedeur had told him not to come to training camp because of the few practice reps he had been getting. Deion saw his other kid, Shilo, during the training camp of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
On Monday, Shedeur stated, “I don’t want him coming to see me right now because I want to get to where I want to go, then for him to see me,”
“I don’t want him to come and see me get a couple reps, and he is cheering like a good dad. Like, nah, you can’t be proud of me right now. I got to get to where I’m going, and I know it’s a lot I got to do to get there.”
“It’s kind of like I just want everything that I’m doing is just focus on this time, and I don’t want no distractions because we know how the media, we know how everybody would take it and take away from the team, just from him being my own dad showing up. So, it is a gift and a curse at the same time.”
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He said: “It’s definitely stay focused mentally,”. “Dad, he’s one person that he’ll handle his, we handle what we got to. So, it was something that we really ain’t even have a formal conversation about because, it was like, ‘Y’all need to focus on what y’all can focus on. Can’t sit here and feel sorry for me, and then that’s affecting y’all doing that.'”
Before dropping to the fifth round, where the Browns took him with the 144th pick, Shedeur was considered one of the best quarterbacks in the 2025 NFL draft.
