Brett Favre sends message to Shedeur Sanders after Colorado QB's unprecedented draft slide on Day 2

Shedeur Sanders is continuing to slide down the Draft order, much to the shock of everyone who had projected him as a first-rounder whether it be in the Top 3/5 or the early 20s. Nevertheless, Brett Favre is imploring him to keep his head up.

On Friday, teams throughout the league snubbed the Colorado Buffaloes quarterback in Rounds 2 and 3. Most notably, Louisville's Tyler Shough, Alabama's Jalen Milroe, and Oregon's Dillon Gabriel went Nos. 40, 92, and 94 with the New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks, and Cleveland Browns, respectively.

Taking to social media, the Hall of Famer narrated that becoming an elite player is defined by production, not placement - also giving a reminder that the Atlanta Falcons did not even want him when he himself was initially drafted, and that only being traded to the Green Bay Packers allowed him to realize his potential:

"Heck I didn’t care when I got drafted, I just wanted a team to give me a chance wherever I went. It’s what you do when your # is called that matters, not when you were taken."

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"Code switching" floated as a theory behind Shedeur Sanders' draft slide

The reasons for Shedeur Sanders’ stock collapse can be summarized into one thought: “He is not good enough to justify the hype,” But Emmanual Acho has an idea who said collapse extended to Draft day itself.

Speaking on Friday’s episode of FS1’s The Facility, the former linebacker said that Shedeur did not adapt significantly enough to please image-conscious coaches and executives, or “code switch”, in his terms:

"Shedeur Sanders did not change his identity or how he comes off for the sake of the decision makers, and who are the decision makers in the National Football League? Primarily non-minorities, white people. He stayed true to Shedeur.

Acho continued:

"In job interviews, whether it's the National Football League or any job interview, oftentimes it behooves you to make yourself more palatable to decision makers. Shedeur Sanders did not do that."

OutKick’s Ian Miller, however, sees fallacies in this argument. For instance, the Tennessee Titans’ Cam Ward, who is black, will play for a team coached by Brian Callahan and managed by Mike Borgonzi, who are both white. And neither required him to “code switch” before he could become their first overall pick.

Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had been Sanders’ likeliest destination before he was snubbed for Derrick Harmon, currently have non-whites at HC and GM (Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan), respectively. Thus, any issue of “code-switching” would have been moot.