For Shilo Sanders, a little rust is understandable against Kansas State. But if it continues at Arizona, he’s going to start putting Coach Deion Sanders in a pickle.
Kansas State tight end Garrett Oakley, back, looks for room to run after catching a pass as Colorado safety Shilo Sanders prepares to make the tackle in the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. “We can’t give up plays that we know we can make. We can’t play up to our standards,” Sanders, CU’s sixth-year senior safety and son of Buffs football coach Deion Sanders, said during the program’s weekly news conference.
“It’s just… disappointing for me, especially the fans,” Shilo said Tuesday. “And I’ve been seeing everybody turn on me and stuff like that. But I’m not worried about of that because as soon as you do good, they’re gonna be right back on your side just how they were when we won UCF game out there in Florida.
Especially at UCF, arguably the most complete game of the Coach Prime Era at CU. The scouts at Pro Football Focus, who grade on a “100” scale, assigned Shilo’s replacement/understudy,Point of comparison: In the opener against NDSU, PFF gave Shilo a 73.4 grade in pass coverage and a 74.0 against the run.
Mind you, some of that “X” backlash stemmed from a short video posted this past April in which Sandersto check out his missed tackle percentage from 2023, adding, “y’all do that, and then teach me how to tackle.” “I know I’m good at football … I’ve made a lot of tackles in my career,” Sanders said. “And in one game, just not going — I’m not gonna let everybody , ‘Oh, you’re trash, you can’t do this, you can’t do that.’ You can’t tell me what I can’t do if I’ve done it already. And you probably haven’t done it. So I’ve done it. I know I’m capable of … we’ve won big games. We know what we’re capable of. So we’ve just got to go do it.
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