"Need to have a national dialogue": Former Jets scout urges NFL teams to grill Shedeur Sanders after highlighting his red flags

There are differing opinions on whether Shedeur Sanders should be a franchise quarterback in the NFL. Much of the discussion has centered around the Colorado quarterback's play this season, which wasn't bad but not outstanding.

Former New York Jets scout Daniel Kelly feels that interested NFL teams should also consider Sanders' sportsmanship when evaluating him for April's draft. In an X post on Saturday, Kelly wrote while tagging every NFL team afterward:

"As a former #NFL Scout, we need to have a national dialogue in the media about these 13 video clips of Shedeur Sanders —video evidence included — and I'm encouraging teams to talk with Sanders during the interview process about these predictive indicators at the NFL Scouting Combine."

Kelly's upload was a quote from a post that comprised links to 13 different examples of situations that highlight possible character concerns. That included an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Nebraska in 2023, poking a Colorado State defender in his eyes during that same year and taunting the Arizona State crowd after a game.

Should teams be worried about Shedeur Sanders?

Talking on a Cleveland sports radio show this week, NFL analyst Ross Tucker gave his own reason why there might be worries about Shedeur Sanders and how he carries himself.

"In production meetings, Shedeur chose not to meet with us, which I thought was interesting," Tucker said Wednesday on Cleveland's 92.3 The Fan radio station. "In the NFL, you can't do that. I guess he was able to make those decisions or do what he wanted to do in college, and that's totally fine.

"But I just think he has a unique background, and I think Colorado was a unique environment. I would just make very, very darn sure that Shedeur would be on board with being a professional in every way that you need him to be a professional."

Tucker later added that he got the impression that Deion Sanders' Buffaloes team had a player-friendly environment, to the point that he said, "The players were running the show in Colorado," before adding:

"I think that's gonna be a wake-up call for him and, to a lesser extent, Travis Hunter, is going from a college where it was a player run-operation ... to the NFL where you're gonna be a rookie — and you're not running any show."

If the elder Sanders ventures to the NFL, any angle involving Shedeur Sanders and a behavioral issue likely won't matter. Deion Sanders said Wednesday on "Good Morning America" that the only way he'd leave Colorado for a professional job is if his sons are on his team. Recent reports claim the Las Vegas Raiders could be a franchise interested in such a proposition.