Shedeur Sanders has had a great start to life as the starting quarterback for the Colorado Buffaloes, proving he’s a legitimate threat as a signal-caller and, to this point, one of the best in the country.
The 21-year-old, who followed his father Deion Sanders from Jackson State late last year, ranks second in passing yards in the NCAA while he’s in the top 10 in completion percentage and the fourth-ranked QB when it comes to touchdown passes.
Despite what he’s done as a Buffalo so far, as well as easily passing the eye test, Shedeur still has some doubters, including an anonymous Pac-12 assistant coach who’s told The Athletic the QB is taking sacks on purpose so he could embellish his completion percentage.
“They really had some tells,” the staffer was quoted as saying. “I think they want to rack up some stats for Shedeur. He really holds on to the ball a long time. I think he takes sacks because he doesn’t want to affect his completion percentage. He’s playing a little different than he did earlier in the season.
“Before he showed that he was willing to step up and escape through the B-gaps. Now, he’s retreating more.”
Sanders is the second-most sacked QB in college football but this is still a pretty strange take given that quarterbacks typically detest getting hit, plus it isn’t hard to tell that the Buffs’ have one of the worst offensive lines around.
To suggest that he’d risk getting injured by getting sacked as often as he has is quite absurd.
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Colorado will play their next fixture against Arizona State this Saturday after dropping two consecutive games to Oregon and USC.
