QB seems to have known before the draft that he wouldn’t land with the Giants
Once upon a time, Shedeur Sanders wore New York Giants-themed cleats before a game to indicate that was the NFL team he thought he would be drafted by.
By the end of the pre-draft process, though, it seems like Sanders and the Giants had gone their separate ways.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Sanders acknowledged he “didn’t hit it off” with Giants coaches. Fowler wrote:
While the Giants worked out Shedeur Sanders the week before the draft, Sanders sensed much earlier that New York probably wasn’t in the cards for him. Sanders openly acknowledged during the predraft process that he didn’t hit it off with Giants coaches, per a source.
Draft insider Todd McShay of The Ringer had said in the days before the draft that Giants coach Brian Daboll was “not a Shedeur guy.”
Paul Schwartz of the New York Post wrote recently that there was no “bomb meeting” that soured the Giants on the former Colorado quarterback. Schwartz wrote:
What seems true is that there was no one incident or moment where the Giants soured on Sanders. That much-reported terrible Sanders meeting with head coach Brian Daboll? The one where Sanders was unprepared for an install test Daboll gave him and then balked at Daboll’s criticism? That is likely either untrue or overhyped. There was no “bomb” meeting. There were less than ideal interactions. There were touch points all along the line that provided check marks for the Giants to assign to the pro and con columns. The conclusion was that the “con” column was too overflowing to accept.
