Shedeur Sanders hung around the NFL Draft boards until the fifth round on Saturday. It was a tremendous fall from grace for a player who was talked about going in the top of the first round.

Shedeur opened up about his discussions with his father and comments that Deion Sanders made after his son went so late in the draft. He also shared what it was like to go through such a tumultuous time.

“He said, ‘God got us.’ So that’s what it is,” Shedeur said of Dad’s 3-word reaction.

Shedeur, a Dallas-area native. is trying to look at what comes next as the opportunity it is.

“All the stakes raised and that’s why I thrive in those high-pressure moments. So I never felt any type of way, I never felt any type of way. I understood, ‘okay, this is the route’ and that’s it.”

When most people mention Shedeur Sanders there is usually a comment made about his legendary father, the Dallas Cowboys icon.  It could be a heavy load to carry such a legendary name while trying to establish your own career as a player in the sport your father dominated for so long.

But Shedeur Sanders said it is “never a burden” being the son of a legend like his father.

“I wouldn’t look at that as that. I feel like everybody, God makes everybody have their own routes, and this is just my route,” he said. “Like there’s nothing I would be able to go back and wish that wasn’t my dad because I’m truly thankful for him being there and the structure I have.”

Shedeur said the agonizing experience of the draft weekend never changed his love for the game or the view of the NFL as a business.

“No, nothing really affected me the last couple of days. …  God really had me and I’m favored, I’m blessed,” he said. “Besides that, it’s not really anything that changed, the love of the game, is still the love of the game. When you get on the field, there wasn’t too much negativity being said.”