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

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,” Shedeur Sanders said. “And they’re doing full background checks on everybody and we’re getting exactly who we want.”

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“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.”

To this point in the 2024 cycle, Colorado has the second-ranked transfer class, according to the On3 College Football Team Transfer Portal Rankings. That includes 40 players leaving the program and another 32 coming into the program through the portal. It’s also a year after Colorado had 55 players enter the portal and 50 come to the program through the portal.

That includes several very talented players coming into the Colorado program, like Tyler Johnson, Quency Wiggins, and LaJohntay Wester.

There is still time for players to both enter the Transfer Portal and make their decisions on where to transfer to. So, where Colorado stands among its peers in the portal could still fluctuate.

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.”

Both Shedeur Sanders and his brother Shilo Sanders have been working to recruit new transfers to Colorado. Once the portal opened up for the spring window, both of them took to social media to share that potential transfers should reach out to them.

“Defense transfers DM me,” Shilo wrote in an Instagram story. “Offense transfers DM [Shedeur]. This not Last Chance U.”

2024 will be Deion Sanders’ second season leading the program. In 2023, he led Colorado to a 4-8 record.