Shedeur Sanders takes ‘safe route’ reacting to Giants benching Daniel Jones

At first glance, the benching of Daniel Jones may not seem to have too big of an effect on Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, but there’s more than meets the eye as it pertains to the situation.

Barring a miraculous run by backup signal-caller and New Jersey hero Tommy DeVito, the Giants will be looking for a new franchise quarterback come 2025. Arguably the top option is Sanders, and the only question is whether New York will be afforded the opportunity to draft him when the time comes.

As the Buffaloes stud usually does, this week’s edition of the 2Legendary with Shedeur Sanders podcast dropped, hitting on all the major talking points in football week-in and week-out. Of course, Jones’ benching came up, and Colorado wide receiver Drelon Miller tried to kickstart a campaign to get Sanders to be his 2025 replacement.

“Honestly, I feel like they’ve just got to take a second to regroup,” Miller said, regarding the Giants. “You know, just hopefully get someone good out the draft,” he coughed, alluding to Sanders.

Alas, the star quarterback didn’t want to come off as disrespectful to Jones or the Giants, so he pushed back a bit at his wide receiver, all in good fun: “What you doin’ that for now” Sanders said while laughing. “What you — what you’d doing that for?”

Still, the idea of Sanders passing to Malik Nabers is something any football fan can get behind, including Miller: “I mean, Malik Nabers was my favorite receiver playing college football last year. I wouldn’t mind if I saw y’all two on a team together. I’d actually be very happy,” he added.

Still, Sanders made sure to point out he’s praying on anyone’s downfall, including Jones and the Giants. If it works out to where he ends up in New York, that’s the way it’ll go, but he’s not going to get caught slipping up and saying the wrong thing.

“Come on man, he’s being federal on here. I don’t know. But nah, I think it’s just up to the staff and up to the coaches at that point. I don’t know — no comment. That’s just the safe route for me. No comment,” Sanders explained. “I can’t even turn water into wine right now. I can’t do anything, so just no comment. But I would never pray on anybody’s downfall though. I would never do that.

“I would never pray on a team’s downfall, player’s downfall, anything, because I wouldn’t want anybody to do that to me. So, that’s why I just — just don’t have a comment.”

The way Shedeur Sanders handled the topic on his podcast is exactly what NFL teams would love to see from their up-and-coming quarterback. As he continues to endear himself to decision-makers with his play on the field, his personality off the field has become just as valuable to his ascension, and it’s easy to see why.