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Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders would find an NFL landing spot other than Browns before going to the CFL

Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders is not going straight to the CFL if he doesn’t end up on the Cleveland Browns’ roster before the start of the 2025 NFL regular season.

That’s what Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio relayed, anyway.

Florio believes Sanders would have another NFL landing spot before considering playing professionally in Canada.

He also doesn’t take the CFL route seriously for the “Grown QB.”

“None of it matters unless and until Sanders washes out of the NFL and decides to roll the dice north of the border. Chad Kelly has done it. Doug Flutie did it. Warren Moon and Joe Thesimann used CFL success as a springboard to NFL stardom,” Florio wrote.

“If Sanders is ever playing for the Argonauts, it will mean that things will have gone very poorly for him in Cleveland, and possibly elsewhere.

“Regardless, the news currently making the rounds isn’t new. The Argonauts still have Shedeur’s negotiating rights. And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”

CFL commissioner Stewart Johnson admitted that the league's releasing of its full negotiations list, which includes the Toronto Argonauts owning Sanders’ negotiation rights, was a PR play.

“We are focused on giving fans and media more opportunities to connect with our product in entertaining and meaningful ways,” Johnston, who started in his role in the spring, said in a statement, per Sportsnet Canada. “By making the full negotiation lists public, fans now have visibility into who their favourite team’s next star could be, sparking discussion and debate, and providing insight into how CFL rosters are built.”

It definitely worked to get extra interest in the CFL’s season, which started in early June, in the dog days of the summer sports calendar.