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Shedeur Sanders, a fifth-round NFL Draft pick from Colorado and son of Deion Sanders, is currently one of four quarterbacks on the Cleveland Browns roster.
The team is reportedly planning to keep all four at the season’s start.
No team is obligated to keep a fifth-round draft pick on its roster, especially at a position in which they currently have more players than most rosters, but the Browns have seemingly made a good-faith move that gives Sanders a chance, at least, to become a backup quarterback.
That didn’t stop Fox Sports announcer Mike Hill from leveling serious allegations against the Browns and the entire league as a whole. Hill, who has filled the announcing role with Fox for well over a decade, says the way Shedeur has been treated is “disgusting.”
“I hope Shedeur Sanders will eventually end up on a good roster with a coach who wants and BELIEVES in him,” Hill wrote on X. “It’s so obvious this league, and even the Browns in a sense, have been trying to send a message to him since the draft & it’s downright disgusting.”
Anyone saying Shedeur sucks as a qb is exposing themselves. It’s so obvious they’ve NEVER really watched him play. The only stat they see and matters to them is his lineage.
— Mike Hill (@ItsMikeHill) August 23, 2025
Hill went on to suggest that the people hating on Shedeur Sanders are just mad at his Pops.
“Anyone saying Shedeur sucks as a QB is exposing themselves. It’s so obvious they’ve NEVER really watched him play,” he seethed on social media. “The only stat they see and matters to them is his lineage.”
There aren’t many football pundits saying Sanders “sucks.” What they, and clearly scouts and executives across the league, have said is that the “me, me, look at me” attitude he brings to the table is a chemistry killer for any team.
Incidentally, this is a path Hill has gone down before. He adamantly defended Colin Kaepernick amidst claims that the NFL blackballed him over his flag protest, after the former 49ers quarterback opted for free agency, and was then dismayed that nobody wanted to sign a guy with circus-like media coverage who was more concerned about himself than his teammates.
And Sanders himself has agreed with Hill’s assertion on the Dad front, saying that the disrespect coming from the league is just an old folks’ response to his father.
“They don’t care about other people’s opinion of you,” the younger Sanders told Cleveland.com. “They go based off their own. 99% of hatred (directed at me) is toward Pops. And then I’m just his son.”
“It‘s just the older generation that does it to me rather than the younger people,” he continued. “Because when I come in person, there’s no negativity I see. But it‘s all over online.”
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