Whenever asked about the nature of the injuries to quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Colorado head coach Deion Sanders has always been vague.
“Shedeur’s been hurting for a while,” coach Sanders said after Saturday’s season finale, a 23-17 loss at Utah.
Thatap been the general message from the head coach for several weeks, but on Sunday night, it was revealed in a , that Shedeur has a fracture in his back.
Deion Sanders Jr. operates Well Off Media. In the video, he filmed his younger brother as they walked to the field at Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium for warmups Saturday. It was already determined earlier last week that Shedeur wouldn’t play against the Utes.
“Are they gonna say what happened to you when the game’s done?” Deion Jr. asked.
“I don’t think so,” Shedeur said.
“Because I want people to know,” Deion Jr. added.
A moment later, as Shedeur continued walking to the field, Deion Jr. posted text about the fracture in his brother’s back.
Despite a record-breaking season, Shedeur was the most-sacked quarterback in the country this season, with 52 — one more than Grant Wilson of Old Dominion and 10 more than any other Power Five conference quarterback.
Shedeur had to get injections of pain killers to get through games in the second half of the season. He went down for good in the first half of CU’s 56-14 loss at Washington State on Nov. 17. After that game, his father and head coach said that Shedeur felt numbness in his throwing hand and reinjured an ankle.
During warmups on Saturday, Shedeur walked normally around the field. But, in the Well Off video he gave some insight into how he was feeling.
“Itap crazy because I feel good,” he told his brother in the video. “But when I start running for real, itap like the idea is, ‘Ah, I feel good,’ but realistically you can’t. I can’t even throw right now.”
Shedeur Sanders, a transfer from Jackson State last winter, finished his first season at CU completing 298 of 430 passes (69.3%) for 3,230 yards, 27 touchdowns and only three interceptions.
Sanders set single-season school records for passing yards and completion percentage. He also posted the best interception percentage (0.7%) in CU history and obliterated the previous record for touchdown-to-interception ratio, at 9.0-to-1.
He also finished second in touchdown passes, attempts and completions. He’s got the third-best single-season passer efficiency rating in program history, at 151.4.
Shedeur also threw at least one touchdown pass in all 11 games he played, extending his personal streak to 36 consecutive games with a TD pass. The only game in his career that he didn’t throw a TD pass was his collegiate debut, in 2021. Sanders completed this season without an interception in his last 127 passes — the sixth-longest streak in CU history.
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