Amid Colorado’s 2-2 start to the 2025 season, head coach Deion Sanders has had to endure some good-natured ribbing from his son Shedeur, who is now in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns.
“Tough. Jokes. They clowning me right now and I’m clowning them right back,” Sanders said about coaching the Buffaloes without his sons during an appearance on the New Heights podcast (5:50 mark). “I just got off the phone with Shedeur. We got this family chat, then we got the girls involved with the chat, then we just got all the boys and all the girls. We got all different kind of chats because we’ve got five kids. So, right now they on my butt. I just told Shedeur, ‘I know you miss me.’ He said, ‘I know you miss me!'”
This marks the first time in Sanders’ coaching career that he is leading a team that doesn’t include one of his sons on the roster. In addition to having Shedeur as his starting quarterback for the past few years, he also coached his son Shilo, a defensive back who spent the preseason with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before being released before roster cut-downs.
Colorado has struggled to find consistency during its up-and-down start to the season, but the team earned a confidence-boosting 37-20 win over Wyoming on Saturday. Liberty transfer quarterback Kaidon Salter, who lost the starting job a week ago, was reinserted as the starter this week and delivered with 304 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions on 18-of-28 passing while adding a team-high 86 rushing yards and another score.
“It’s been rough not playing last week,” Salter said after the win. “I just want to go out there and be the best version of me for the team.”
If Salter continues to perform at a high level, the Buffaloes will have a good chance to right the ship.
Colorado will be hosting No. 25 BYU on Saturday, and the matchup is a bit more meaningful after the Cougars defeated the Buffaloes 36-14 in last season’s Valero Alamo Bowl, which was the last game that Sanders coached his sons before they moved on to the NFL.
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