The NFL’s long arm reached into the 2025 draft. Eric Dickerson, on the Roggin and Rodney show, didn’t just suggest—he stated with conviction from a “excellent source” that the league office sent a message to its teams: “Do not draft him. We’re gonna make an example out of him.” The ‘him’ in question? Shedeur Sanders , the record-shattering Colorado quarterback, whose slide to the fifth round became the draft’s most perplexing mystery. Per Dickerson, was a calculated power move.

The objective, as Dickerson laid bare, was to see Sanders go completely undrafted, a stunning fall from grace for a player who threw for over 4,134 yards and 37 touchdowns just a season prior. “That’s exactly what was going to happen,” Dickerson said. The plan allegedly shifted only when the slide beca

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