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FORT COLLINS, COLORADO – SEPTEMBER 14: Shedeur Sanders #2 of the Colorado Buffaloes warms up prior to the game against the Colorado State Rams at Canvas Stadium on September 14, 2024 in Fort Collins, Colorado. (Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
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FORT COLLINS, COLORADO – SEPTEMBER 14: Shedeur Sanders #2 of the Colorado Buffaloes warms up prior to the game against the Colorado State Rams at Canvas Stadium on September 14, 2024 in Fort Collins, Colorado. (Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Deion Sanders’ sons, Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders, are breaking taboos! If you think that the Sanders brothers are all about football, then you are mistaken. The Buffs QB has spread his magic outside the gridiron. But it did cost him hard since he attracted massive criticism. The time has finally come for Shedeur to open up about the unwanted side that comes complimentary with the nationwide fame that athletes gain. While the QB feels confident in his skin, his poor numbers handed over the baton to rivals’ hands. As Shedeur’s athleticism was sidelined, haters poured in to rip him off, making use of his “watch flex” move.
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For this season, the Buffs pinned high hopes on Shedeur to flip the 2023 script. While the QB started well, it did not take him much time to stoop down from hero to zero status. All thanks to Matt Rhule’s crew, who landed five sacks on Deion’s son. But Shedeur did not give the loss enough power to break him morally. Instead, he happily appeared on the podcast with Robert Griffin III. However, his “I got to just, you know, focus on football right now” hinted at something else.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – FEBRUARY 8: Shedeur Sanders arrives at the red carpet at the 13th Annual NFL Honors on February 8, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
While breaking the real reason behind such dedication towards the sport, he threw light on the dark side of the fame that often goes unnoticed. Shedeur knows how his answer came off as a blow now that everybody had been under the assumption that how poorly he performed would propel him to look for other options. But that’s surely not the case.
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Instead, Shedeur came up with a bold and confident reply, “Cuz that’s just normal life.” He further highlighted how athletes are too scared to be true to themselves for the sake of what others would say, “A lot of people hide who they are you know just because of the situation.” Things often get tough for college athletes since they, too, need a “mental break”, but rather, they make it sound like football is something they think about 24X7. No college athlete other than Shedeur knows this pain.
Shedeur Sanders’ rap game got roasted
Beyond football, Shedeur is known as the ultimate connoisseur for watches. Out of all, Buffs would not need a second to guess the ultimate favorite timepiece. It’s none other than the most-talked-about stainless steel Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15500 watch. But when it’s the student-athlete with an NIL value of $5.1 million, it has to be customized.
The masterpiece that Shedeur owns is coated with 30 carats of VVS diamond and has been handcrafted specially by Saki Mihalakos, the owner of the Jacksonville-based jewellery. All these made the piece cost around $70,000 which is originally retailed at $27,800 for the base design. But that is something his money helped him to achieve. What about his own skills outside football? Shedeur tried his luck in rapping and came up with his debut rap “Perfect Timing.” And how could the haters allow the QB to stay happy and win at life?
On September 7, what was supposed to be Shedeur Sanders’ heroic feat turned out to be an epic flop. And here came the Cornhuskers with a brutal move. They rushed to the locker room and blasted Shedeur’s Perfect Timing rap, celebrating their victory. Not just this, they decided to sprinkle salt on the Buffs QB’s fresh wounds by imitating the “watch flex” move. Yet all this salt won’t keep Shedeur off the field.
As you just found out about how the Buffs QB aced the NIL game, to get more in-depth insights you can listen to the Think Tank podcast with Doug Sanders.
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