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The fan who’s suing the NFL over Shedeur Sanders’ slide in the draft is apparently taking the matter very seriously.
A certain John Doe is attempting to take the league to task in the belief that all 32 teams colluded to cause the quarterback’s fall from the first round despite him being among the three best signal-callers who declared.
The former Colorado star was eventually picked in the fifth round, with the Cleveland Browns stopping his free-fall at No. 144.
Shedeur now has the opportunity to compete for the starting job but will have to usurp Dillon Gabriel, Kenny Pickett, and Joe Flacco.
🚨REPORT: The John Doe who sued the #NFL over Shedeur Sanders’ draft slide filed an emergency motion citing urgency & public interest.
He is seeking early discovery, requesting NFL emails, texts, scouting reports, draft boards, recordings, media comms, prank call probe.
WOW 😳 pic.twitter.com/LD9dAU0No3
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) May 20, 2025
As for the fan, USA Today reports that he’s filed a motion for early and targeted discovery as he’s now looking to have the NFL hand over “emails and text messages between and among a broad range of team and league officials regarding Sanders from April 1, 2025 through May 1, 2025”
He’s also after “scouting reports, internal assessments, draft boards, and interview notes used by NFL teams when evaluating quarterbacks during the 2025 draft.”
While there’s very little chance of this moving forward, it appears that John Doe knows his way around a lawsuit. Who knows? Maybe he’s done this before or has been on the other end a few times.
Of course, the media would love to get hands on the NFL’s private documents. But it would be a massive surprise if the motion isn’t denied, as there’s nothing about the case that would be urgent enough to get the NFL to hand over files before being allowed to prove why such a matter would never hold up in court.
Of note, John Doe is moving forward with his Shedeur Sanders suit without a lawyer, which sometimes helps a plaintiff’s case, given that judges tend to go easy on parties without attorneys looking to bring about justice.
Still, nothing is expected to come from this, in spite of how seriously John Doe is taking it.
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