Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders and his son, Shedeur, are the perfect personification of the differences between the post-NIL era of college football the latter is part of now and the less-rewarding system the former was part of during the latter half of the 1980s — at least that’s the picture OutKick’s Grayson Weir painted, at least.
“The landscape of college football was extremely different when Deion Sanders played at Florida State compared to how things are today with his son, Shedeur,” Weir prefaced before saying, “That can be said for both on-field schematics in terms of Xs and Os, as well as how things operate around the sport.