Brett Favre Drops Truth Bomb as Shedeur Sanders Slides in NFL Draft

The 2025 NFL Draft is wrapping up, and the action is heating up in the final rounds. But the biggest shock? Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders, once hyped as a potential top pick, is still waiting for his name to be called as Day 3 rolls by.

As football fans and draft experts try to wrap their heads around Sanders’ dramatic tumble, Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre chimed in with a little dose of perspective. Favre, who was picked 33rd overall by the Atlanta Falcons back in 1991, shared some classic draft day photos on X and dropped this gem: "Heck I didn’t care when I got drafted, I just wanted a team to give me a chance wherever I went. It’s what you do when your # is called that matters, not when you were taken."

Favre’s own draft story wasn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows. The Falcons’ head coach at the time, Jerry Glanville, famously wasn't a fan of the pick—he even joked he’d need a plane crash before putting Favre in a game. Ouch. Favre barely saw the field in Atlanta, with his first NFL pass turning into an infamous pick-six. Not exactly the stuff of legends… yet.

But then came the Green Bay Packers, who saw something special in Favre. The rest, as every cheesehead will remind you, is history: Super Bowl champ, three-time MVP, 11 Pro Bowls, and a Hall of Fame career.

Now, Shedeur Sanders finds himself in good company with other late-round surprises like Dak Prescott, Tom Brady, and Kirk Cousins, all of whom turned ‘day three’ disappointment into NFL stardom. Experts and fans are stunned—some even saw Sanders as a possible first overall pick just months ago—but hey, the draft is nothing if not full of plot twists.

At the end of the day, as Favre said, it’s not about when you get drafted—it’s about what you do when opportunity knocks. Here’s hoping Sanders is ready to answer that call.