With the dust now settling after an eventful Round 1, one of the biggest conversations entering Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft is where Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders will land.

Sanders, widely viewed as one of the top quarterbacks in the 2025 class, was not selected within the first 32 picks, leaving many to wonder what happened with a player consistently projected as a first-rounder in mock drafts.

NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero explained Friday on Good Morning Football why the development wasn’t entirely surprising, given the landscape of teams seeking a QB and the type of signal-caller some want to lead the franchise.

“I think that where we fall short at times, as the media, is allowing certain things to get ahead of what people within the NFL actually see,” Pelissero said. “If you talk to scouts and coaches around the NFL, there was one guy in this draft who was a surefire starting quarterback, in terms of profile, and that was Cam Ward. The rest of them — Shedeur Sanders, Jaxson Dart, who goes to the Giants after they trade up (to No. 25), Jalen Milroe, Tyler Shough — they’re all somewhere in that first-, second-round border type of scenario.

“For the Giants, they like Jaxson Dart’s athletic ability, they like his size, they like the fact that they can run the football with him, run RPOs and read options, which really isn’t Shedeur Sanders’ game. With Shedeur, you gotta have a really clear vision. You gotta believe that he’s gonna be able to adjust his game, at least somewhat, from what he did at the college level to the NFL, in terms of getting the ball out faster, not taking as many sacks, being more efficient as a quarterback. And when there’s only so many teams that are even in the first-round quarterback market, you can say, ‘Yeah, he’s sliding,’ but is it actually a slide?”