2025 NFL Draft: Shedeur Sanders to visit with Las Vegas Raiders

Shedeur Sanders is set to visit with the Las Vegas Raiders ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft, according to SI’s Albert Breer. The visit is scheduled for Monday.

There are myriad quarterbacks set to visit with Las Vegas. Sanders and the Raiders have been linked this offseason, but the Colorado QB has dropped in recent mock draft projections.

This will be an interesting decision, considering Heisman runner up Ashton Jeanty has been linked to the Raiders heavily lately. But Sanders can’t be ruled out.

“The Raiders have a big group in for 30 visits today, per sources, with LSU OT Will Campbell, Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart, Texas QB Quinn Ewers, Michigan DT Mason Graham, Ohio State QB Will Howard, Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty and Michigan OLB Josaiah Stewart all in Vegas,” Breer wrote on Twitter. “In addition to the group there now, the Raiders also have a 30 visit slated for Monday with Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders, sources say. So with Geno Smith locked up through ’27—and Sanders, Ewers, Howard and Dart all visiting—Vegas is kicking tires on developing a QB behind him.”

Sanders even went viral during his pro day workout when he patted the ball prior to each throw. It’s a small thing and he’s certainly not the first high level quarterback to do it.

But that didn’t stop social media film analysts from questioning it. ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky provided more context to the habit from Sanders as he watched his pro day.

It’s not a big flaw by any means. But that just means Sanders has to pick it up in other small areas.

“So one of the things I don’t know if you guys saw it, that went all over social media, was the conversation around Shedeur and patting the football,” Orlovsky said on Get Up. “If you saw some of the highlights from his workout, he’s a guy that pats the ball before he throws it, and there’s this big battle of, does it matter or not? Some of the all time, great quarterbacks patted the football. Aaron Rodgers patted the football. Tom Brady patted the football. John Elway patted the football. Dan Marino patted the football. 

“I think of the overwhelming thing is one, you better have elite arm strength to get away with it consistently in the league. That’s not something Shedeur has. Or you better have insane timing and accuracy, insane timing and ball placement, like Tom Brady did, and Shedeur has elements of that. So the whole patting the football craze that kind of took off after his workout, I do think is a little bit bigger than the reality of playing in the NFL.”