Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes lost to the Kansas State Wildcats 31-28 on Saturday night at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., and it wasn’t a great night for Shilo Sanders.
Shilo, who is one of Deion’s two sons on the team, had 7 tackles in the defeat. It wasn’t about the tackles he made, but rather the tackles he didn’t make.
Shilo was clowned on social media for being completely fooled upon meeting DJ Giddens in the hole and failing to make a tackle:
DJ GIDDENS MADE SHILO SANDERS TOUCH EARTH 😳 pic.twitter.com/Nqy6wI1zmY
— ESPN (@espn) October 13, 2024
This video clip shows two more tackles Shilo missed:
Shilo Sanders getting worked lol pic.twitter.com/c5GwkeziE3
— Clemson Bagman (@ExcessDepth) October 13, 2024
And another video shows Shilo over-pursuing on a slant route:
Get Shilo sanders off the field he looks like a last chance u player pic.twitter.com/eF5S097XMQ
— John (@iam_johnw) October 13, 2024
It’s no surprise after a game like that that Deion was critical of his son.
“I thought he played horrible. I thought he was rusty and I thought he didn’t have his footing. I thought he wasn’t breaking down and he was coming up and trying to make a play … but he’s doing to do better. I know what he has in him,” Deion said after the game.
Shilo may have been rusty because he did not play for over a month due to a broken forearm. But he sure wasn’t at his best in the game — Deion’s not wrong about that.
