QB Shedeur Sanders were able to go anywhere from the second pick to the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Analyst Louis Riddick believes that Chedur’s father, Dion Sanders, will be fine in any scenario, as long as he is on the right team. And he doesn’t think the right team is at the top of the draft like the Cleveland Browns.
“I hope he doesn’t go to the top three picks,” Riddick said of ESPN’s Sanders. Through professional football talk. “I hope he doesn’t. And I think his camp will tell you the same thing. There are other teams they want to go to.”
The Tennessee Titans, Browns and New York Giants hold top three picks in the draft. Titan is expected to draft QB Cam Ward, but the field opens quite a bit afterwards. The Browns may certainly want to draft Chedure Sanders, but there are many other options too. And if Chedur and Dion feel they want nothing to do with Cleveland, they might pivot.
As Mary Kay Cabot on Cleveland.com To point out, Louis Riddick and Dion Sanders are close, and in fact Chedur is close. They played together in 1992 as members of the Atlanta Falcons before their path diverged. But they remained nearby, with Sanders backing Riddick’s recent bid to win the Jets’ general manager position.
“Chedur is someone I want to work with,” Cabot quoted Riddick as saying about Sanders on ESPN. “He’s the person you want to talk to. He doesn’t want to be told, ‘This is how we do things and you just need to line up.’ ”
Riddick also spoke with Cabot and named the Steelers the team they think would be the perfect team for Chedure Sanders. He cited HC Mike Tomlin as the main reason, but he also named the Saint and the Raiders. Certainly, he had said a lot of positive things about the Browns, but then provided his reason for them. In particular, he cited their revolving doors at quarterbacks of the past quarter century.
In particular, Cabot points out that Dion Sanders met with Browns representatives at the Chedur showcase. He even had a positive attitude about Browns owner Jimmy Haslam that he basically liked no one. Deion previously said he would prevent his son from landing with the wrong team, but then he reduced the language considerably as he approached draft eligibility.
Certainly, if Chedur and Dion Sanders don’t want him to go to the Browns, I’m sure he’ll be pretty much alone. The only players that might be excited to go to Cleveland are those connected to the area. Or they simply don’t care or are not good at geography. Certainly, because no one goes there thinking they’re going to win the game.
