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Skip Bayless delivered an epic rant after Shedeur Sanders’ NFL debut. On Friday night, Sanders impressed in his first start as an NFL quarterback when he threw for two touchdowns and 138 yards in a little more than two quarters of work.
SHEDEUR SANDERS PUT ON A SHOW IN HIS PRESEASON DEBUT ⌚️ pic.twitter.com/yEhAL5YUxy
— ESPN (@espn) August 9, 2025
Sanders, who fell to the fifth round of the NFL draft, said he was motivated to play well for people “who don’t have a voice. ”
“I’m playing for those who don’t have a voice. I’m playing for people locked up; they send me messages saying, ‘Bro, we’re rooting for you.’ The external motivation I have is crazy, and I channel that. Regardless of how I’m feeling, regardless of how I feel, I know there’s a lot of people counting on me to succeed.”
After the game, Skip Bayless fired off a 16-minute video reacting to Sanders’ first game and blasting NFL teams for passing on him.
“Tonight, Shedeur Sanders made the entire National Football League look like petty fools, and in some cases, racist fools, and in many cases, Deion-despising fools. Shedeur Sanders made all those teams that had 143 chances to draft before he went 144th, he shamed all of them, including the Cleveland Browns, who finally took him in the fifth round.”
SHEDEUR SANDERS, WHO SHOULD’VE BEEN THE FIRST PICK IN THE DRAFT, SHAMED THE ENTIRE NFL TONIGHT. pic.twitter.com/5pW9F1qXGt
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) August 9, 2025