NFL intel shows Jets dodged a huge bullet after latest Shedeur Sanders revelations

The New York Jets had the opportunity to end the shocking fall of newly minted Cleveland Browns fifth-round quarterback Shedeur Sanders multiple times, but they chose to continue ignoring him despite their suspect quarterback room.

Barring collusion, the only explanation for someone as talented and outgoing as Sanders falling this far has to be that he had the worst interviews in NFL history. The latest intel makes it seem like that could be what actually happened behind the scenes.

Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated reported that Sanders was reportedly unwilling to take the blame for a "particularly rough" interception when asked about it in a film review session. Sanders was also allegedly unable to catch purposeful mistakes teams laid out for him in one of their playbook installs. Things got worse, somehow.

According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, Sanders was reportedly "sandbagging" interviews with teams he didn't want to go to in an attempt to engineer his ideal landing spot coming to fruition. As good as Sanders is, the Jets seemingly missed out on a lot of external noise.

Jets made right decision to continue ignoring Shedeur Sanders in NFL Draft

While Sanders and his father, Colorado coach Deion Sanders, did eventually say they would be happy to be drafted to any team, the results of the Draft make it seem like Sanders overplayed his hand and went into the process too confident for his own good.

Sanders, from a value point of view, would have been a fantastic selection. Even if people were unimpressed by his lack of mobility, no one who has his combination of accuracy and football smarts falls that far in a draft that almost everyone has regarded as a subpar quarterback class.

This Jets offseason has been all about moving on from the bombast of the Aaron Rodgers era, as Aaron Glenn has consistently tried to shut down any talk of anything outside of his current roster. The last thing that would help Glenn out in that pursuit would be bringing in a complete lightning rod like Sanders.

The Jets don't have an elite quarterback room consisting of Justin Fields, Tyrod Taylor, and the competition between third-stringers Jordan Travis, Brady Cook, and Adrian Martinez.

However, none of them are in a position to completely dominate the New York media landscape based on their personality alone, which would have been the fear if this team brought in Sanders.

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