Malik Nabers voiced his disappointment over Shedeur Sanders' fifth-round selection in the 2025 NFL Draft during a podcast with Carmelo Anthony. He criticized the unfair judgment based on personal perceptions instead of talent, suggesting that Sanders, who has worked hard and achieved significant milestones, deserved better recognition. Anthony echoed this sentiment, attributing Sanders' drop in the draft to broader, negative attacks on his father, Deion Sanders, reflecting systemic biases against Black quarterbacks. Both emphasized the need to focus on performance rather than judgments about character or presentation.
"You don't do that to somebody like that. You can't knock his talent. Some things you just can't knock. Come on, bro... for them to judge him on just the things he says or how he carries himself... You don't do that, not to a kid like that..."
"This is the part about the game that is wack. We talk about the dark side of sports... This is an attack at Prime in a sense. It's an attack on a Black family and a Black man who raised his young men to be men..."
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