{"id":117565,"date":"2024-05-06T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=117565"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:38:54","slug":"espn-predicts-raiders-trade-for-controversial-star-to-take-over-qb-job-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/espn-predicts-raiders-trade-for-controversial-star-to-take-over-qb-job-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Predicts Raiders Trade for \u2018Controversial\u2019 Star to Take Over QB Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1763504215-e1714993034231.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Raiders potential 2025 draftee Shedeur Sanders\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-dom-ready-time=\"989\" data-img-load-time=\"1838\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential 2025 draftee Shedeur Sanders<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It might be a year late as far as\u00a0Raiders\u00a0fans are concerned, but finally, in 2025, the team will land its quarterback of the future with a major draft-day trade. And what a quarterback:\u00a0It\u2019s Shedeur Sanders, the controversial Colorado star who captivated the college football world early last year but slid back when the Buffaloes fell apart after the first three games.<\/p>\n<p>That is\u00a0according to ESPN, which released draft analyst Jordan Reid\u2019s early mock draft last week. Without the crowd of top-rated quarterbacks in 2025, Reid foresees the Raiders being able to move up via trade to No. 6 to take a crack at drafting Sanders, considered by many to be the top QB prospect in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A talented pass-catching crew would be awaiting Sanders, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith\u00a0Davante Adams,\u00a0Jakobi Meyers\u00a0and\u00a0Brock Bowers\u00a0on offense, the Raiders can set up a young passer really well. And Sanders is a smooth operator whose game centers on his great ball placement (69.3% completion rate last season, eighth in the FBS) and calm demeanor when protected in the pocket,\u201d Reid wrote.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Shedeur Sanders Had Hot Start at Colorado<\/h2>\n<p>After two stellar seasons at Jackson State playing for his father, Deion Sanders, Shedeur Sanders followed his father to Boulder last year, and made an immediate splash, when he threw for 510 yards and four touchdowns against 16<sup>th<\/sup>-ranked TCU in his Colorado debut. That was followed by a hot streak that left him with a\u00a03-0 record, 1,451 yards and 10 touchdowns\u00a0in three games against major-conference foes.<\/p>\n<p>But the Buffaloes went 1-7 after that headline-grabbing start. Sanders might have entered the 2024 NFL draft, except that questions emerged, primarily about his talent as a pocket-passer and his ability to adhere to his internal clock.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s draft was top-heavy on quarterbacks, with six picked in the first 12 selections. So Sanders stayed in school. But he says that if he had not, he\u2019d have been the top pick. At the very least, he might have seen to it that the Raiders still have a quarterback on the board at No. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m biased, but I don\u2019t see a quarterback that\u2019s better than me,\u201d Sanders told\u00a0<em>Sports Illustrated\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Brice Butler\u00a0during Super Bowl week. \u201cI don\u2019t see a quarterback that went through as much adversity as me, that had four [offensive coordinators] in four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing from an HBCU, coming to a Power Five [program], having real pressure on me. A lot of people don\u2019t understand, that\u2019s a lot more adversity than you think just even being the son of Deion Sanders.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Raiders Might Welcome Controversy at QB<\/h2>\n<p>Sanders has courted controversy elsewhere, too. Last week, after defensive back Xavier Smith transferred out of Colorado, he told The Athletic that Deion Sanders \u201cnever even tried to get to know me,\u201d Shedeur snapped back,\u00a0calling Smith \u201cvery mid\u201d\u00a0and saying he did not know who he was.<\/p>\n<p>He was also dubbed \u201ccontroversial\u201d last season after he\u00a0taunted the Arizona State student section\u00a0following one of Colorado\u2019s four wins.<\/p>\n<p>Not a good look for a leader. But the Raiders have never been a team to shy away from controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question is whether the Raiders feel they need a quarterback after 2024. It\u2019s entirely possible that either\u00a0Gardner Minshew\u00a0or\u00a0Aidan O\u2019Connell\u2014the team\u2019s current tandem\u2014wins the job, leads a playoff run and puts fears about the position to the side.<\/p>\n<p>If not, maybe it\u2019s Sanders season. He just needs to get better, at least on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took 52 sacks in 2023 behind a struggling offensive line, so Sanders\u2019 internal clock must speed up before he gets to the next level; he tends to compound mistakes by holding on to the ball too long. But he has a ton of talent and can certainly be the answer for Las Vegas. I see a lot of similarities to\u00a0Geno Smith\u00a0in his game,\u201d Reid wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential 2025 draftee Shedeur Sanders It might be a year late as far as\u00a0Raiders\u00a0fans are concerned, but finally, in 2025, the team will land its quarterback&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117573,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117565\/revisions\/117573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}