If you are wondering why Shedeur Sanders fell up to the fifth round In the NFL draft this year you can just talk to Merrill Hoge. Before the project began, the former run -up backinge broke, why he thought that Sanders would ultimately become an “epic failure” in the NFL, if he was accepted in the first round.
During an interview with April 23, 102.5 WDVE in Pittburg Hoga was asked to give him a look at the defender Colorado, and then he explained why he did not think that Sanders’s game will translate NFL very well.
“I think the best way to summarize is a really good college defender: its accuracy is good, its processing is good,” Hoga said. “And when I say well, I use a scale of 1 to 10, so it is good about five. So if you are five in college, okay? These (accuracy and process) are the two most important aspects of the transition to the National Football League, and then you are building from there. A foresight, pocket awareness, and then we begin to build, but these two things, if you are five, you are not the first place.
If the NFL teams felt the same as Hog, it is easy to understand why Sanders ultimately slipped.
Although Sanders headed all the FBS defenders with the completion level of 74%, Hoga said that this number was distorted because Sanders abandoned so many screens.
“No one threw more bubbles than Sheyer Sanders when it was important,” Hoga said.
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During the 2024 season, Sanders had 168 passing attempts that were on the contractions or behind the fights that were most connected in FBS. These 168 attempts represented 35% of all his throws. Hoga said that you should watch the screens to find out how the Sanders game will be transferred to the NFL.
“In the college environment, it can be difficult to transfer the child to the place where he is going to play, so you should look at him deeper, you must find things that imitate the NFL,” Hoga said. “You are not going to quit 50% of your bubble screens and survive in the NFL, you can do it in college – they will sit there (in Colorado) and say that their offensive line was bad, and therefore we did such things – but if your protector is good, you can run everything. You don’t just need to start the bubble screen. ”
Hoga felt that the buffalo used so many screens to help Sanders.
“You are going to protect the child,” Hoga said. “I get it from the coaching aspect, you would have done it.”
Former Stylers, running back, pointed out several recent defenders of the first round, such as CJ Stroud, Jayden Daniels and Joe Burrow, and said that Sanders was not next to these guys in talent.
“This is a set of skills that you are looking for,” Hoga said. “He is not even close, he is not even at the stadium.
Hoga also did not like the fact that Sanders seemed to deteriorate, since the 2024 season continued in Colorado, which included Losing 36-14 for BYU in Alamo Bowl, where Sanders, perhaps in his worst game in the season.
“He worsened when the year continued, and then entered … The only guy I saw was worse than 30 years of work, this is Mitch Trubiska,” Hoga said.
Then Hoga released a warning to any team that could think about choosing Sanders in the first round.
“He cannot cope with the expectations that are approaching him,” Hoga said. “He will be an epic failure, and he will put your organization back for another two or three years.”
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Now Sanders will be much less pressure when he goes to Cleveland as the choice of the fifth round, but this may not help him win the starting defender. If his game is not transferred to the NFL, then it will be difficult for him to beat Joe Flakko, Kenny Pickett or even a newcomer of Dillon Gabriel for the QB work.
If you are wondering why you should listen to Hoga, he predicted in 2014 that Johnny Manziel would be a bust.
“I see that the bust written above it,” Hoga said. “Especially if it was called up in the first round. He has absolutely no instinct or a sense of pocket awareness. He has instinct to run. This is a bad instinct if you are going to have it in the National Football League. ”
Hoga said that the problem with Manziel was that his recruitment of skills simply would not work in the NFL, which is essentially his same problem with Sanders.
“His set of skills does not go to the National Football League, and this is a big, great risk (take it),” Hogue told Mancheil.
Manziel finished the fact that he went to the browsing in the first round, but began only eight games in two seasons before escaping from the NFL. Browns will hope that Sanders will get a much greater success in Cleveland than Johnny football.
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