As the last day of the 2025 NFL draft, a question dominates everyone.
Where will Sheteeur Sanders go?
At a time of duration of this Draft cycle, the Colorado Campo Marshal recruited and the questions about Sanders’ landing place have given way to a subcuestation outside the box.
Could you return to university?
That was the floated discussion on the NFL network during coverage on Friday night. After all, Sanders has a year of university election removal.
However, if this is the Hey route to pursue, it would not come without fighting. A legal fight, that’s.
According to the chosen rules of the NFL and the NCAA, once a player declares for the NFL Draft, they have renounced their renovating university election. As established here by the League:
The NFL encourages most first -year students to finish their university eligibility and obtain a degree while stabilizing as a professional perspective. Participating in the Draft means that a subconjocist loses its removating election: if it is not selected by an NFL team, you will not be able to play another university season and will not be able to improve the draft of the draft position of the following year.
Other professional leagues, such as the NBA, allow a player to return to school after declaring the draft, provided they have not retained an agent. While Sanders and his camp have handled their representation without hiring an agent, the NFL does not have this same provision.
Now, that could be challenged in court. As established by Mike Florio in Soccer talk On Friday night, Sanders could seek to challenge that rule:
But we have learned a very important thing about university football in recent years. Most, if not all, NCAE rules violate federal antitrust laws. And with the players who now earn millions in null money, why shouldn’t a player with removal eligibility be allowed to return?
No one has tried it. Sheeur could. If he fails, he could say that signing a rookie agreement and joining Whicer Team Anally writing.
There is also a fascinating financial aspect for a potential challenge. Having fallen up to day, Sanders would probably earn more money through a possible null agreement than through a rookie contract.
Then this possible argument is. Maybe returning to university, to a different school, could show the NFL what the league expects to see of Sanders:
Here is another turn that should be considered. Do not return to Colorado. His 2026 draft stock could be improved when he finds a new team, and demonstrating that he can play at a high level of his father/coach, Dion.
There is also the small issue of Colorado who has already removed his shirt.
Legal barriers could prevent this from being a real option for Sanders, and who knows how the League would see it next year that Iear chose to fight to return to school instead of trying its must in the training camp after a selection of the late round. There is an aspect of “old school” in the evaluation game, and it is not difficult to believe that Sanders approach for minimal training and meetings rub the league in the wrong way. Would return to school improve that mentality?
We will see what happens today, but the simple answer is this: Sanders cannot return to school, at least without a legal fight.