Shedeur Sanders’ ball knowledge is coming under fire this week.
The Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders appeared recently on an episode of “The Rush Podcast” with Las Vegas Raiders star defensive end Maxx Crosby. In a clip of the episode that went viral this week, Sanders was asked to give his Mount Rushmore of NFL quarterback-and-wide receiver duos.
Sanders responded with Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski (though Sanders acknowledged that Gronkowski was a tight end) and then with Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams. Where things went a little haywire however is when Sanders followed that up by picking [checks notes] Derek Carr and Chris Olave and then by picking DK Metcalf and whoever the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback was going to be.
Shedeur Sanders’ Mount Rushmore of QB/Receiver duos:
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1) Brady + Gronk
2) Rodgers + Adams
3) Derek Carr + Chris Olave
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The Carr-Olave pick specifically threw Crosby for a loop, causing him to respond by saying, “That’s a curveball. I wasn’t expecting that.” That is probably the right reaction too considering that the Saints duo was together for just two years and did not produce even so much as a single Pro Bowl appearance during their time as teammates.
There were some obvious misses there for Sanders (e.g. Joe Montana-Jerry Rice, Peyton Manning-Marvin Harrison, Terry Bradshaw-Lynn Swann, etc.). But he even missed Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, a duo that his father Deion played with on the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s.
It is possible that Sanders, who was born in 2002, was simply just trolling there. But those responses will not do Sanders’ reputation much good in the midst of an offseason during which he already got into trouble for speeding and largely failed to impress during rookie minicamp.
