Although he put up some impressive numbers, Shedeur Sanders’ first season as Colorado’s starting quarterback wasn’t easy. The junior took 52 sacks and missed the season’s final game due to injury.
Soon after the season ended, it was revealed that Sanders had suffered a fracture in his back.
Fortunately, Sanders is expected to be ready for spring ball, which typically begins around mid-March. In a Zoom interview with the Associated Press on Monday, Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders was confident that his son will be healthy when spring practices commence (h/t ESPN).
“Oh yeah, most definitely. He will be,” Sanders told the AP. “He just needs some rest and to heal up a little bit because he took a tremendous beating. And that provoked some things in me to do some things differently because the beating that he took — sometimes people forgot that I’m not only his coach, but that’s my son — so I understand that’s not how this is supposed to go.
“We’ve played youth league, high school and at an HBCU and we’ve never been beaten up like this. So, something had to change in that aspect.”
This upcoming spring season is another important one for CU football with another wave of new talent coming to Boulder. So far this offseason, Coach Prime has landed transfer commitments from four offensive linemen, three wide receivers and a tight end.
Contact/Follow us @BuffaloesWire on X (Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Colorado news, notes and opinions.