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Shedeur Sanders ' slide to the fifth round of the NFL Draft was the subject of widespread controversy and speculation, even by President Donald Trump, in April.

Now, Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is claiming that teams were "told not to" draft Sanders to "make an example" out of the quarterback.

"I tell you this much, what I heard from someone that's in the NFL that the NFL told [teams] don't draft him, do not draft him," Dickerson said in an interview on the "Roggin and Rodney" show on AM 570 LA Sports on Thursday. "'We're going to make an example out of him.' And this came from a very good source, a very good source.

"They were going to have him not get drafted to basically show you 'this is what happens when you do thi

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