Cris Carter has no time to conspire.

NFL Hall of Fame recipients have a lot to say about the 2025 NFL Draft, which is increasingly called the "Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft". Everyone has a perspective, from alliance collusion to talent issues and everything in between.

Well, Carter seems to have made it clear that issue, which he mentioned in the latest episode of the fully loaded podcast.

"There is no collusion with the NFL owners. Because they will not be able to keep such a secret," Carter said.

Sanders famously fell into the fifth round of the draft, with Cleveland Browns picking Colorado's prospects with the 144th pick.

Instead, Carter blamed the Sanders family, especially his father Deion, on the NFL Hall of Fame and the current Colorado head coach.

"It's a small word. Dean, the media and everything is out of control. It doesn't help."

"You're going to have a job interview," Carter said. "So, during his job interview, he was very worried about what his clothes were, and he had more than a hundred necklaces.

Carter added that in the process, Sanders abandoned at least $300 to $50 million.

The former Minnesota Vikings said the quarterback’s video tape was enough to make him a first-round draft pick, but the additional factors made the situation worse.

"He didn't have a big time. He wasn't a big guy. His sport wasn't too sporty. So his measurable members weren't meant to be measurable in the first round, but he played football like the first round."

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Carter highlighted the bad meetings, the father’s potential NFL future, and the prominence of his brand. He said Sanders is not a quarterback who has been passed down from generation to generation and it can ignore other things.

"But Shedeur and his family, they exaggerated their hands," Carter said. "They thought he was in the same evaluation mode as Eli Manning, and they didn't do the right situation. They tried to narrow down the team he was going to, and that wasn't right.

"It's not the right thing to do without exercising on the combine. His interview process - he could obviously do better in that. A lot of people left the meeting and felt he was very qualified."

Carter did admit that Sanders' fall was far beyond his mind, a process he said, and the system taught Sanders a lesson.

"Let me tell you what he understands today," Carter said. "He didn't run (stubborn). OK? Let me tell you something, they taught him a great lesson. You didn't find this. Your dad didn't have this problem."

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