{"id":26801,"date":"2025-05-06T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26801"},"modified":"2025-05-06T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:34:10","slug":"new-report-exposes-giants-titans-for-their-bizarre-behavior-towards-shedeur-sanders-at-the-east-west-shrine-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26801","title":{"rendered":"New Report Exposes Giants &#038; Titans For Their Bizarre Behavior Towards Shedeur Sanders At The East-West Shrine Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/new-york-giants\/\">New York Giants<\/a>\u00a0snubbed\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/shedeur-sanders\/\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a>\u00a0in the NFL Draft, choosing to go with Jaxson Dart instead. But it\u2019s been suggested that they were very high on him before that, as were the Tennessee Titans, who took Cam Ward with their No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>According to former NFL star Shawne Merriman, the aforementioned NFL teams obsessed over the quarterback during the East-West Shrine Bowl earlier this year and would not give him a break.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI talked to [Giants head coach] Brian Daboll and I also talked to the GM there (Joe Schoen), and I can tell you, between the Giants and the Titans, they would not leave Shedeur alone,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heykayadams\/status\/1919448166815953242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Merriman said<\/a>\u00a0on the \u2018Up &amp; Adams\u2019 podcast with\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/kay-adams\/\">Kay Adams<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Between the Giants and the Titans, they would not leave Shedeur alone..&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnemerriman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shawnemerriman<\/a>\u00a0on Shedeur experience at the shrine bowl<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t4nO4Hd7uD\">pic.twitter.com\/t4nO4Hd7uD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kay Adams (@heykayadams)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heykayadams\/status\/1919448166815953242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former All-Pro had a front row seat at the Shrine Bowl as he\u2019s the CEO of Lights Out Sports, which has media rights to practices at the event.\u00a0 He claims that Sanders was the subject of immense interest, so much so that he was\u00a0<em>\u201calmost tripping over their digital people with cameras because they were in our way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey were trying to get as close as they were to Shedeur, so I knew they were very high on Shedeur,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he added.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-shawne-merriman-says-the-giants-amp-titans-had-shedeur-sanders-as-their-1st-round-pick-at-that-point\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shawne Merriman Says The Giants &amp; Titans Had Shedeur Sanders As Their 1st Round Pick At That Point<\/h2>\n<p>Merriman even went as far as suggesting that both the Giants and Titans had Shedeur down as\u00a0<em>\u201ctheir pick\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but he can\u2019t figure out what happened between the Shrine Bowl and the NFL Draft to cause him to slide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe Giants \u2014 speaking of Brian Daboll and the GM there \u2014 and the Titans were very high on him and that was supposed to be their pick, so I\u2019m not sure what happened at that point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shedeur opted not to play at the All-Star bowl game, but, according to Merriman, that didn\u2019t deter teams, who were all there to see him<em>\u00a0\u201ceven though he wasn\u2019t practicing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former Colorado star ended up sliding all the way to the fifth round, with the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>\u00a0trading up to take him after selecting QB Dillion Gabriel in round 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The\u00a0New York Giants\u00a0snubbed\u00a0Shedeur Sanders\u00a0in the NFL Draft, choosing to go with Jaxson Dart instead. 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