Say what you want about Deion Sanders and his family. The one thing you cannot say, though, is that they are boring.

If it wasn't for all the drama surrounding Deion's son Shedeur, most of the nation would have fallen asleep while watching the NFL draft last Thursday night roughly midway through the first round. But Shedeur, or the lack of Shedeur, stretched interest in the draft until Saturday when the Cleveland Browns selected the Colorado quarterback in the fifth round.

Forget No. 1 pick Cam Ward of Miami going to the Tennessee Titans. Forget even Shedeur's Colorado teammate Travis Hunter (the Shohei Ohtani of football) going No. 2 to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty going to the Las Vegas Raiders with the No. 6 pick was interesting for about three seconds. But the next second is when the "Where's Shedeur" talk started up again.

And never stopped. It still hasn't stopped. Ward already is the most forgotten No. 1 pick since Central Michigan offensive lineman Eric Fisher in 2013 by Kansas City and we're still not a week away from the draft.

The "What Happened to Shedeur" talk will likely continue for as long as he's in the league. We've already heard countless possible reasons why Shedeur plummeted to the 144th overall pick. NFL teams supposedly didn't like Shedeur's arrogance, they didn't like the way Deion tried to manipulate the draft, they didn't like the way Shedeur performed in the pre-draft interviews. Those were the most often-mentioned reasons. But there were plenty of others.

NFL teams, it’s being said, weren't sure if Shedeur's enormous ego would tolerate sitting on the bench for one play, let alone a year or two. They weren't convinced he could actually lead an NFL team. They didn't want to deal with all of the possible criticisms coming from Papa Deion if Shedeur wasn't starting or being treated well in the NFL. And, of course, racism was also thrown out quite often as another reason why 143 players were taken in the draft before Shedeur.

The one reason that was rarely mentioned was Shedeur's shortcomings on the field. Shedeur, most agree, has enough skills and qualities to possibly become a successful quarterback in the NFL. He's not perfect and he certainly has things to work on, but he clearly proved he has the ability to play in the NFL, certainly as much as Jaxson Dart, Tyler Shough, Jalen Milroe and Dillon Gabriel, who were all taken ahead of Shedeur. Gabriel was even taken by Shedeur's Browns 50 picks before they took Shedeur.

It's difficult to imagine, though, that the true difference between Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders is 143 picks. Maybe 20 or 30, even 40 or 50, but 143? It's safe to say that about 100 of those 143 picks between Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders were due to Sanders' overbearing daddy and his own personality and arrogance. Shedeur, like his father, has been and always will be only about himself. Over-the-top, non-stop, in-your-face ego, arrogance, selfishness, entitlement, immaturity (call it what you want) have no real place on an NFL roster at any position, let alone at quarterback, the guy who is supposed to lead your team and is the face of your organization.

Shedeur is talented. But he's not that talented.

It also must be noted that the Cleveland Browns are either the smartest team in the NFL or the most clueless. They will appear smart and shrewd if Sanders eventually becomes their starter and actually plays well. Finding a productive starting quarterback in the fifth round is always a huge bonus.

But how do you explain the Browns taking another quarterback (Gabriel) 50 picks before they selected Shedeur? Yes, they likely knew that no other team was going to take Sanders. But why risk losing Sanders? And was it really a smart thing to add all of the Shedeur drama to training camp and a quarterback room that already includes veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett as well as Gabriel? DeShaun Watson, arguably the worst free agent signing in the history of the NFL, is also still technically on the roster. Can you imagine the private conversations between Watson and Shedeur at training camp?

Why didn't the Browns, a franchise that is desperate for a legitimate starting quarterback, pick Sanders with one of their three picks in the first 36 picks of the draft? That would have eliminated the vast majority of the drama surrounding Shedeur before it even started. Isn't this the organization that thought Johnny Manziel was a first-round pick in 2014? Before that there was Brandon Weeden in 2012, Brady Quinn in 2007 and Tim Couch in 1999.

If Shedeur can play (and he can) he'll be starting by Week 6 after Flacco reminds everyone he is now 40 years old, and Pickett reminds us he was a first-round bust in 2022 (for the Pittsburgh Steelers).

Bill Belichick is having a mental breakdown. The so-called greatest coach in NFL history (give me Bill Walsh, Don Shula, Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, Bill Parcells, Paul Brown ahead of the overrated Belichick) looked like a bumbling fool during a recent CBS interview when his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, repeatedly interrupted and corrected him from off camera.

Belichick isn't going through a mid-life crisis. He went through a mid-life crisis about 20 years ago when the run of New England Patriots Super Bowls was just getting started. This is a full-blown, end-of-the-trail, the party-is-almost-over, end-of-life crisis. Most go through it with hip replacements, knee surgeries, waiting in line at Walgreens for the prescription to be filled, flipping through old photo albums and weekends playing bingo.

Belichick is doing it with a 24-year-old former cheerleader.

The 73-year-old Belichick is ruining his legacy with each second he remains attached to Hudson. He looks like a clown. A fool. A desperate aging, fat, bloated man with nothing better to do with his millions of dollars than to give it to a 24-year-old gold digger. Yes, it's better than giving it to a failing stock market but there are other options.

Grumpy Bill is embarrassing his entire family, the New England Patriots and the entire NFL. And, yes, the North Carolina Tar Heels, the attention-desperate, publicity-seeking idiots who made the huge mistake of naming him as their head coach back in January. Now we have a better idea why no NFL team hired Belichick after the Patriots pushed him out the door following the 2023 season. If you were a parent of an 18-year-old high school football player, would you now want him to play for Belichick?

It's all well and good that Belichick has a 24-year-old girlfriend. Congratulations, Bill. Enjoy your life. What's left of it. But why make it so public? Why not just slip away into obscurity during your golden years in retirement with your girlfriend that is more age-appropriate to be one of your grandchildren? Why do national television interviews? Why put pictures of yourself and your agile girlfriend on social media captured on a beach in bathing suits performing strange acrobatic poses? Who took those pictures? Kim Kardashian?

We get it, Bill. Your girlfriend is hot. Again, congratulations. But you are not the first 73-year-old millionaire who is paying for a 24-year-old hot girlfriend. You have become a cliche. Will you trade in Hudson next year for a 20-year-old North Carolina cheerleader?

Kitan Crawford on Saturday became the first Wolf Pack player since Cole Turner and Romeo Doubs in 2022 to be selected in the NFL draft when the Arizona Cardinals called his name in the seventh round.

Crawford, who led the 3-10 Wolf Pack last fall with 76 tackles, apparently impressed NFL scouts with his 4.3 speed in the 40-yard dash. Wolf Pack fans saw that 4.3 speed up close when Crawford returned an interception 52 yards for a touchdown during a 42-37 win over Oregon State last October in Mackay Stadium. It was, unfortunately, the last win of the year for the Pack, which ended the year on a six-game losing streak.

Crawford joins a long line of Wolf Pack defensive backs drafted by the NFL, a list that includes Brock Marion, Duke Williams, Forey Duckett, Patrick Hunter, Bernard Ellison and Khalid Wooten. Don Morgan also played seven games for the Arizona Cardinals in 2002, but he did it as an undrafted free agent.

Crawford likely would have never worn a Wolf Pack uniform if not for current head coach Jeff Choate. Choate, a former Texas Longhorns defensive coordinator, brought Crawford with him from Texas before the 2024 season. Crawford is also the first one-year Wolf Pack player to be drafted by the NFL since defensive end Doug Betters. Betters, who was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1978, played one year (1977) at Nevada after three years at Montana.

Wide receiver Tory Horton, who played two seasons (2020-21) for the Wolf Pack, was also drafted on Saturday.

Horton, who saw his 2024 season cut short by a knee injury at Colorado State after just five games, was picked in the fifth round by the Seattle Seahawks (who also took UNLV wide receiver Ricky White in the seventh round).

Horton, who went with Pack head coach Jay Norvell to Colorado State after the 2021 season, continued another great tradition of Wolf Pack wide receivers in the NFL draft that includes Nate Burleson, Romeo Doubs, Tommy Kalmanir, Scott Beasley, Treamelle Taylor, Alex Van Dyke, Maurice Mann, Marko Mitchell and Rishard Matthews.

Horton caught 265 passes for 3,615 yards and 27 touchdowns in college (72-995-10 with Nevada). He joins defensive back Patrick Hunter and linebacker DeShone Myles as former Pack players drafted by the Seahawks Wide receiver Nate Burleson. who was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings, also played four years (2006-09) with the Seahawks.

The Las Vegas Raiders made a pair of interesting picks in the sixth round when they took quarterback/wide receiver Tommy Mellott of Montana State and quarterback Cam Miller of North Dakota State.

Mellott won the Walter Payton Award last year as the best player in the Football Championship Subdivision and was the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year after completing 204-of-301 passes for 2,783 yards and 31 touchdowns (just two interceptions) and also ran for 1,050 yards and 15 touchdowns. Mellott, who was brought to Montana State by head coach Jeff Choate (now the Wolf Pack head coach) in 2020, had a 33-8 record as Montana State's starting quarterback.

Miller, who won two FCS national championships at North Dakota State (in 2020 as a backup to Trey Lance and 2021 as a starter), had a 45-11 record in college. He passed for 9,720 yards and 81 touchdowns and ran for 2,277 yards and 48 touchdowns during his career.

Mellott and Miller faced off as starting quarterbacks in the FCS semifinals after the 2023 season. Miller was 5-of-13 for 66 yards and a touchdown and also ran for a 3-yard score in a 35-34 overtime win for North Dakota State. Mellott was 13-of-17 for 204 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for touchdowns of 76 and six yards in the loss.

The two schools also met in the FCS championship game after the 2021 season with North Dakota State winning, 38-10. Miller was 9-of-13 for 126 yards and a touchdown. Mellott was injured on a three-yard run for a first down on the game's opening drive and didn't return.

The 5-foot-11 Mellott and 6-1 Miller will join veterans Aidan O'Connell, Geno Smith and Carter Bradley as quarterbacks on the Raiders roster.