Shedeur Sanders embraces pressure from family name

When your father is a legendary football player with a bust in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, there can be some lofty expectations hurled upon you. And that is the case when it comes to Hall of Fame defensive back and Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders‘ son, Shedeur Sanders.

Recently Shedeur Sanders addressed the pressure of living up to the expectations being the son of an NFL great.

“I’m a Sanders. I don’t feel pressure. That’s a thing that’s in my blood. I don’t get nervous, I don’t get none of that. Especially when you prepare, you got the coaches and you got the staff and players around you. It’s no real pressure. You just find yourself in your own thoughts. And that’s the thing, I don’t fear no names or nothing like that,” said Sanders.

This upcoming season, Shedeur Sanders will have a ton of pressure from multiple sources as he takes over the role of starting quarterback at Colorado. He joined his father in Boulder, Colorado, making the jump from the FCS at Jackson State to the FBS with the Buffaloes.

That move comes with a significant jump in quality of opponent. But the Buffaloes’ quarterback has been operating under pressure before the move to a Power-5 conference school. And like the pressure of being the son of a legendary NFL player and in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Sanders looks to be up to the task of handling it all in 2023.

Sanders says father Deion is ‘doing real good’ after surgery

Speaking of Shedeur Sanders’ father, the Buffaloes’ head coach was a notable absence from Pac-12 Media Day on Friday. Deion Sanders is missing the event due to another surgery. “Coach Prime” has dealt with blood issues the last few years and underwent a follow-up procedure on his foot on Thursday.

Sanders’ son Shedeur was at Media Day, though, and provided a promising update on his dad.

“My pops is doing real good,” Shedeur Sanders said on College Football Live. “I just got off the phone with him and he’s just excited that we’re out here, we’re doing Media Day. He wishes he could be here but he can’t right now.”

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It’s been seven months since Deion Sanders left Jackson State to take the head coach position at Colorado. Shedeur admitted it hasn’t necessarily been easy, but the team has come together as a unit to get through the transition and prepare for the season.

“It’s been a lot mentally, moving out to Colorado,” Shedeur Sanders said. “Knowing what he’s going through, just himself, and building a team, building a program. Just everything, just having the guys mesh together. It’s been a lot. It’s been a lot on, I would say, myself mentally and a lot of players. But we’re just here, pulling together.”