Shedeur Sanders believes Colorado offense is ‘quarterback friendly’

Shedeur Sanders figures to be one of the top quarterbacks available in the 2025 NFL Draft, but he has one more season with the Colorado Buffaloes before that time comes.

Entering the 2024 campaign, Sanders is in a fantastic spot, playing for his father’s team and having a former NFL head coach as his offensive coordinator in Pat Shurmur. Following the Buffaloes’ spring game, Sanders took some time to elaborate on why he’s a fan of Shurmur’s offense, and the freedom he has.

“I feel like the offense is very quarterback friendly,” Sanders told the media, during a recent press conference. “I feel like it’s how I see the game, how I feel out there. If it’s a concept that I don’t like, that I want to adjust, then we can talk about it, or he could say, ‘Okay, I like it, this is the reason why.’ So it’s always a reason why, and I feel like I told him, even this morning, we got up here at like 6:30 a.m. and we just had a meeting, just talking about, I told him my biggest goal this year is not to keep us in like, bad plays.

“So it’s like, to understand what each and every play doesn’t work right for, and get us in the right play. So it’s really just trying to take my game, and make the team, just take it to the next level, to where we’re always just going to be one step ahead.”

Alas, that’ll help endear Sanders to NFL teams as well, as he’s basically running a pro-style offense at the college level under Shurmur, something most quarterbacks in the sport aren’t doing at the moment. He should be able to jump in and play right away at the next level, depending on the situation.

However, he has a full season of college football left before then, and Colorado has big dreams, as they’re back in the Big 12. We’ll see if Shedeur Sanders can bring his father’s team to the promise land in 2024, with all eyes back on the Buffaloes.

Shedeur Sanders on roster turnover: ‘They’re doing full background checks’

Moreover, the Colorado Buffaloes team feels comfortable going into the 2024 season, despite having plenty of roster turnover for the second season in a row. In fact, quarterback Shedeur Sanders is confident that the team is going to be better next season.

Following the spring game, Sanders explained that the way Colorado is scouting and recruiting transfer players is different this year, with the team doing full background checks on players.

“I feel like we’re getting quality guys now,” Sanders said. “And they’re doing full background checks on everybody and we’re getting exactly who we want.”

“I told ESPN this earlier. I watched the LaJohntay Wester PFF, and I went after him. So, it’s like we — just collectively we know what type of players we’re getting overall and then we just play them to their strengths.”

There has been criticism of this approach to building a program. However, head coach Deion Sanders has argued that Colorado isn’t really losing valuable players to the Transfer Portal.

“I wish you guys do a little more homework when you start talking about the portal and understand what we losing, What are we losing? I got time today,” Sanders said. “What are we losing? Potential? Where? You haven’t been watching practice have you? We good. We’re good.”

On3’s Dan Morrison contributed to this article.