didn't Jamarcus Russel famously not even put the video that the raiders gave him into his dvd to review(it was blank?)
That reminded me of the Kyler Murray "homework" clause.
I found it even more funny that he objected after signing the contract, and the team removed the clause because it was too much of a story LOL.
I thought I read somewhere Brian Daboll gave Sanders some kind of play package to review before the interview and he either didn't bother with it or just did really poorly explaining the concepts to Daboll during the interview. Just remember them saying Daboll was pissed. The prank call to him was really inappropriate and just completely shitty IMO. It was weird seeing just how far he dropped, laughable for the first two rounds, but then he plummeted and I remember thinking "WTH is going on?"
From what we know, it was mainly off-field stuff. As far as dropping all the way to the 5th round, there's some "rationale" for this. Going into the draft, some teams certainly have a need for QB (PIT is still waiting for Kaaron LOL), but it's a fixed number of teams. Once those few teams pivoted away from Sanders, he's just gonna keep plummeting. With other positions besides QB, you would just take the talent in the 3rd round (if he truly is 2nd best at his position in this draft). Every team wants a credible backup to the franchise QB, but they don't want to spend draft capital on a diva who could destabilize the depth chart.*
Only the Browns would be dumb enough to decide to have a free-for-all QB competition in camp between: Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and
TWO mid-round draft picks.
* On Friday, Broncos HC Sean Payton was literally raving about Shedeur Sanders but they already got Bo Nix a year ago and it worked out for them. So despite Payton's public comments, they would have little to no interest in adding Sanders to their roster.
The counter-argument to all this is the Falcons drafting Michael Penix Jr #8 a year ago, to much surprise. Kirk Cousins ultimately collapsed, and Penix was given the starting job.