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Colorado stars Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter will play in the Buffaloes’ postseason bowl game despite declaring for the NFL Draft, coach Deion Sanders said Tuesday. The decisions eschews a trend of highly ranked players opting out to prepare for the draft.
The Buffaloes clinched their first trip to the postseason since 2020 but face a steep climb to reach the Big 12 Championship Game as they enter Week 14 tied with three other teams at 6-2 in Big 12 play. There are still more than 250 scenarios on the table that leave up to nine teams with the potential of reaching the title game. Sanders, however, assured reporters that Colorado’s matchup against Oklahoma State on Black Friday will not be the final time they don Buffs uniforms.
“It’s not the last time you’re going to see them in a Buffs uniform,” Sanders told reporters. “These two and all the rest of the seniors have done a wonderful job of getting us to where we are, instilling so much expectation in our fanbase and expectation in ourselves, so we’re going to fight and try to end this thing on the right note, and we’re going to go to a bowl game and end this thing on the right note.”
Hunter is ranked as the No. 1 player in the CBS Sports Prospect Rankings as an athlete, while Shedeur Sanders ranks as No. 9 and the No. 2 quarterback. CBS Sports NFL Draft analyst Chris Trapasso projects Hunter as the No. 1 pick to the Jaguars and Sanders as the No. 5 pick to the Raiders in his 2025 NFL Mock Draft.
Colorado has undergone one of the biggest transformations in the sport over the past two years, growing from one…
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Author : Shehan Jeyarajah
Publish date : 2024-11-26 20:09:00
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