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Think you’ve heard more than enough of Shedeur Sanders? Sorry, friend. We’re all just getting started here.
Sanders, the brand-new fifth-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, is the latest product of the 21st-century fame machine, a figure (for now) famous for being famous. Maybe he’ll be a star in the NFL, maybe he’ll be a what-ever-happened-to, but in this offseason, he stands right at the center of the NFL world. Why? Ask your grandmother.
As popular and entrenched as sports are in American culture, very few athletes pass the Grandmother Test — as in, would your non-sports-knowing grandmother know who this athlete is?