{"id":22956,"date":"2025-02-01T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=22956"},"modified":"2025-02-01T01:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T01:06:23","slug":"breaking-shedeur-sanders-has-message-for-cowboys-ahead-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=22956","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Shedeur Sanders Has Message for Cowboys Ahead of NFL Draft.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2180584357-e1738311496713.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2180584357-e1738311496713.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2180584357-e1738311496713.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2180584357-e1738311496713.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders expects to see the Dallas Cowboys &quot;very soon.&quot;\" width=\"780\" height=\"437\" data-img-load-time=\"267\" data-dom-ready-time=\"547\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Shedeur Sanders expects to see the Dallas Cowboys &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shedeur Sanders is still awaiting his NFL Draft fate, but he may have just dropped a hint about where he thinks he\u2019ll end up.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders attended the Shrine Bowl on Thursday, which was being played at AT&amp;T Stadium. When asked about the experience, he said he\u2019s looking forward to being back on the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u2018 home turf \u201cvery soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in the stadium is definitely fun. I know I\u2019ll be playing here very soon against the Cowboys,\u201d\u00a0Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Many saw that as a clue that Sanders expects to land with the\u00a0New York Giants\u00a0\u2014 the Cowboys\u2019 NFC East rival. He\u2019s been linked to the Giants for a while, but New York\u2019s late-season win hurt their chances of securing the top pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants hold the\u00a0third overall pick\u00a0behind the\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0and\u00a0Tennessee Titans\u00a0\u2014 two quarterback-needy teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants play the Cowboys twice per year. The Browns and Titans will not see the Cowboys next season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Shedeur Sanders Might be Gone Before the Giants\u2019 Pick<\/h2>\n<p>Sanders is considered one of the top quarterback prospects in the draft. He and Cam Ward are expected to be the first two passers off the board. There\u2019s the potential that both could be gone by the time the Giants are on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sanders connected with the Giants at the Shrine Bowl and general manager Joe Schoen was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a great kid, he\u2019s a great kid, a really good personality, football smart, his dad is a football coach,\u201d\u00a0Schoen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit clich\u00e9, but he checks all the boxes of a [player with a] dad that is a football coach and the passion that he approaches the game with. He\u2019s had a really good career at Colorado and obviously looking forward to getting to knowing all those guys in the rest of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Deion Sanders Previously Linked to Cowboys<\/h2>\n<p>The Cowboys reached out to\u00a0Deion Sanders\u00a0during their coaching search, and for a time, he was considered a contender for the job. That sparked speculation about the team potentially making a move for Shedeur Sanders \u2014 though, in reality, that scenario was improbable.<\/p>\n<p>After hiring\u00a0Brian Schottenheimer as the team\u2019s next head coach, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones downplayed his widely publicized conversation with Deion Sanders regarding the position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a conversation about the team, and about where he is, and his boys, conversation with his boys, that type of conversation,\u201d Jones said about Sanders. \u201cI\u2019ve said I\u2019ve talked to a lot of coaches, and Deion has a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys already have a franchise quarterback in\u00a0Dak Prescott. The three-time Pro Bowler signed a four-year,\u00a0$240 million extension\u00a0prior to last season. Schottenheimer is confident Prescott can lead the team to a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s gonna play elite level football,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cHe\u2019s gonna lead us to championships. We got the right guy. We\u2019re gonna win. We\u2019re gonna win a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schottenheimer has served as the Cowboys\u2019 offensive coordinator for the last two seasons, forming a tight relationship with Prescott. Both parties have said that they have an \u201cincredible\u201d relationship and seem confident Dallas can turn it around after a 7-10 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Shedeur Sanders expects to see the Dallas Cowboys &#8220;very soon.&#8221; Shedeur Sanders is still awaiting his NFL Draft fate, but he may have just dropped&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Shedeur Sanders Has Message for Cowboys Ahead of NFL Draft.. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=22956\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Shedeur Sanders Has Message for Cowboys Ahead of NFL Draft.. - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Getty Images Shedeur Sanders expects to see the Dallas Cowboys &#8220;very soon.&#8221; 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