Deion Sanders on Julian Lewis: 'He's everything we desire at quarterback'

Deion Sanders couldn’t stop raving about five-star quarterback Julian Lewis, who has signed with Colorado and will join the team next season.

Lewis might not have to start right away due to transfer signee Kaidon Salter, but Lewis is exactly what Sanders wanted in a QB, post-Shedeur Sanders. Coach Prime’s son is off to the NFL as Colorado looks to the next era after the initial two years of Deion Sanders.

For Deion Sanders, Lewis fits the mold of what Colorado wants to embody at the position.

“I think smart coaches at this level understand what has worked for them, and they try their best to replicate that,” Sanders said. “Shedeur’s worked really well for us. He has a wonderful father in his life. Father has always been there. Father just knows the game and a father that’s hands on. I saw a lot of similarities in the way Julian’s life has been structured, speaking to his father multitude of times, understanding how he came up, what he wants out of life, what he wants out of the game, and from the game, and what he gives to the game. The similarities are unbelievable.” 

Julian Lewis is a winner, according to Deion Sanders

It’s not just quarterbacks for Sanders. Lewis and others have to fit the mold of being leaders and winners.

“So you want someone of that nature, the kid that we got from Texas in the slot that’s killing everybody, Jimmy Horn, that’s Jimmy Horn. That’s LaJohntay (Wester),” Sanders said. “So you try to find those guys that have been good to your program and you identify them, and you just try your best to say, Okay, I want the character this. I want this … I’m going to accept that foolishness, I want what I want, and I’m going to get it or I will go to the next kid, but that kid right there. He’s everything that we desire in a quarterback. He’s smart, he could throw, make, every throw. He has pocket awareness, pocket presence. He is a darn leader, but most of all, he’s a winner. People forget that category when you look at the quarterback. Are they winners? 

“We have one right now, and we’ve got one coming in, and we got one on campus right now as well. The winners, that’s the intangible that you want. You don’t want to get a guy that got his butt kicked all the time. What is that gonna do? What is he gonna say on a TV timeout to a team, when it gets to a pivotal point in the game? And he’s always lost? Not leading our team.”