While it wasn't an easy span of days for every Colorado Buffaloes draft prospect, it turned out to be one of the most successful NFL drafts for the program in a long time. After Travis Hunter was selected No.

"This is a repudiation by the NFL of how Shedeur Sanders and those around him handled the entire NFL Draft process," Jones said. "What you're not going to tell me -- or really anyone who watches football -- is that Shedeur Sanders is a worse quarterback than Dillon Gabriel, who was selected in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

Deion Sanders warned everyone last year, in context to his CU Buffs boys: "Don't allow their hatred for me to interfere with our kids' success." At the time, it sounded like a rallying cry for Travis Hunter’s Heisman campaign.