Eric Dickerson Says NFL Sabotaged Shedeur Sanders In Draft

In what will be the largest case of collusion since former quarterback Colin Kaepernick was not given one other probability to play within the NFL, an NFL Corridor of Famer (no, not Deion Sanders), Eric Dickerson, feels this was the case with Cleveland Browns rookie, Shedeur Sanders not being drafted till the fith spherical of the newest NFL Draft.

In accordance with USA In the present day, the previous operating again, who performed with the Los Angeles Rams, the Indianapolis Colts, the Los Angeles Raiders, and the Atlanta Falcons throughout his illustrious profession, feels that NFL homeowners had been instructed to not choose Sanders main as much as this 12 months’s NFL Draft. He made the revelation whereas showing on the “Roggin and Rodney” present on AM 570 LA Sports activities with co-hosts Fred Roggin and Rodney Peete.

Dickerson claimed that he had insider data when talking of the alleged directive from the league earlier this 12 months. Their motive? To make an instance out of him. It was rumored that he wouldn’t go to a number of groups and, like many gamers earlier than him, was attempting to put himself in a greater state of affairs by way of the groups that will draft him. His father, Deion Sanders, was additionally one other speculative issue, as he didn’t need his son suiting up for sure groups that had been in place to choose him. Though many white gamers have completed so prior to now, it was seen and speculated by many as racism that the NFL didn’t respect a Black man attempting to inform them what they’ll and can’t do.

“I let you know this a lot, what I heard from somebody that’s within the NFL that the NFL informed [teams] don’t draft him, don’t draft him,” Dickerson informed Roggin and Peete. “We’re going to make an instance out of him. And this got here from an excellent supply, an excellent supply.”

Earlier than the Browns picked him with the a hundred and fifty fifth choice, Dickerson acknowledged that the workforce had referred to as and was informed to draft him. Sanders was an anticipated Prime 3 decide earlier than the draft, however suspiciously fell to the fifth spherical, ramping up rumors of the league plotting to have him fall in shame. Nonetheless, lesser-known gamers who didn’t have the identical stats or win-loss report as Sanders had been being chosen.

Dickerson stated that the Browns had been notified and informed to pick him.

“He stated that–– I received’t say who–– any person referred to as the Cleveland Browns and stated ‘don’t do this, draft him,’” Dickerson stated. “As a result of they weren’t going to draft him both… They had been pressured into drafting him as a result of any person made a name to them.”

“They had been going to have him not get drafted to mainly present you ‘that is what occurs once you do that.’ I imply, look, [Roggin], the NFL’s acquired all types of energy, they do all types of stuff. it and I do know it too.”

You possibly can hear the total dialog at this hyperlink.

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