Shedeur Sanders has made his decision.
After a standout season with Colorado, which took the college football world by storm for much of the 2023 campaign, Sanders, one of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders’s sons, began to garner consideration for the NFL draft, with some speculating that the junior signal-caller might enter the draft as soon as 2024.
Fortunately for the Buffaloes and their fans, that has not come to fruition.
Sanders announced his intention to return to Colorado for his senior year in a message to fans, posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night.
Y’all know I’m not declaring this year. We got the pieces we need do it big this year 💯
— Shedeur Sanders (@ShedeurSanders) January 13, 2024
“Y’all know I’m not declaring this year. We got the pieces we need do it big this year,” Sanders wrote.
Sanders, who threw for a school-record 3,230 yards with 27 touchdown passes and just three interceptions in 2023, certainly has every reason to want to return to the Buffaloes after they made major strides in year one of his father’s leadership. The Buffs went 4–8 under Deion Sanders this past season after going 1–11 under Karl Dorrell and Mike Sanford in ’22.
Additionally, the Buffaloes again loaded up in the transfer portal, bringing in a total of 22 players, including four 4-star players, to rank second in the nation in On3 Sports’s transfer portal team rankings.
Sanders alluded to such additions, especially on the offensive line, as a big reason why he thinks Colorado can take an even bigger step as it moves back to the Big 12 in 2024.
The NFL will have to wait another year.
