Jets fans are writing to me asking if the team made a mistake not drafting Shador Sanders.

Oh boy. The answer is probably not. And I'll explain why today on Locked On Jets.

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Welcome, this is the Locked-on Jets podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. It is Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, and I'm your host, John B from gangreneation.com. Thank you so much for making the show your first listener, first watch every day. Big shout out to you every day. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week, Monday, through Friday and our episode today is brought to you by Fandul. Right now, new customers can get $250 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. On today's show, we have our weekly mailbag. Each Wednesday, we try and do a mailbag with listener questions. Thanks to everybody who sent in questions. Let's begin. Our first question is a provocative one from Taylor who asks,

Hey, John, was I alone among Jets fans and wanting the team to draft Shador Sanders once he fell past the second round?

I know he was terrible in his interviews, but the team still does not have a settled franchise quarterback.

And at a certain point, doesn't a potential one become worth the risk given his level of talent?

Thank you for that question, Taylor. You know, you're going to get like half the people mad at me no matter what I say. I don't know what I did to you

to deserve a question like this. I'm joking. It's an interesting question. I think it's a

question with some nuanced answers. I think there are lots of layers to this. As we know, Shudor

Sanders fell unexpectedly to the fifth round of the NFL draft where the Cleveland Browns finally

selected him. There's all sorts of rumors about why that is, as Taylor mentioned, he apparently

was very bad in the one-on-one interviews with teams. I think that there are a lot of reasons Shador Sanders fell, some of which are legitimate,

others of which I question the legitimacy of.

I think the number one reason he fell is, honestly, I think he was a little overrated

as a prospect.

I felt this entire time, like, in a normal year

where it's not viewed as a weak quarterback year, and a year where there's like normal

talented quarterback, I don't think Shudor Sanders is a first round pick. I don't think Shredor

Sanders is a first round pick of the 2024 class. I think that the importance of the quarterback

position and the propensity of teams to reach for quarterbacks because of the importance of the quarterback position and the propensity of teams to

reach for quarterbacks because of the importance of the quarterback position led Sanders

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