Steelers' Shedeur Sanders rejection is latest nightmare in QB's historic NFL Draft slide

Billy Heyen

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This is reaching the point of being unbelievable.

Somehow, Shedeur Sanders is still available in the NFL Draft.

He slid all the way into the third round, but that was supposed to be the end of it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were making their next pick at No. 83 overall. Surely, that'd be Sanders.

Except the Steelers didn't take Sanders. Nobody has.

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As Friday night threatens to reach Saturday's fourth round, Sanders is still available.

He spent much of the college season considered as an option to ascend to the No. 1 overall pick, competing with Cam Ward for that honor.

Ward did end up at No. 1. The Colorado QB Sanders is still waiting.

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This is a shocking slide.

The Aaron Rodgers slide has been brought up, but even he only fell to the 24th pick.

Sanders is in total free fall.

It's hard to understand how draft projectors were this far off on Sanders.

Maybe news will emerge in the coming days that explains it, but maybe not.

All that's for sure is that Sanders is going to go later in this draft than even the boldest predictor would suggest.

Unbelievable, truly.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle