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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Coach Prime on NFL Teams’ Shady Draft Manipulation

  • Deion Sanders joined ‘Front Office Sports Today to discuss the NFL draft, the transfer portal, NIL, and the state of college football.
  • In the interview, Sanders suggested that NFL teams intentionally leak negative stories about players to tank their draft stock.
Deion Sanders
Courtesy of CU Athletics

Deion Sanders believes that NFL teams leak negative stories about players they are interested in drafting to tank their draft stock. Coach Prime joins the show to discuss the draft, the transfer portal, NIL, and the state of college football.

Plus, the Olympics are finally giving out prize money, new details have come out about John Calipari’s contract with Arkansas, and the WNBA is putting nearly every Caitlin Clark game on national TV.

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