Shedeur Sanders is heading into the offseason workout program as one of two QBs with the best chance to start for the Cleveland Browns, but his father Deion Sanders is still trying to put his thumb on the scale.
Deion Sanders took to social media on Monday, April 20 to join the love fest surrounding Arizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson, who was ostensibly plunging down NFL draft boards due to his lingering hamstring issue and substantial history of injury before video of his pro day enraptured the social media-verse and started the hype ball rolling.
“Jordyn Tyson is different,” Deion Sanders posted.
On the surface, that four-word message reads merely like praise for a wideout who, when healthy, has the highest athletic upside of the 2026 class in the opinion of the majority of national analysts.
However, sports radio in Cleveland received Deion Sanders’ take as a message to the Browns front office on how to approach the No. 6 overall pick on Thursday.
“Deion’s voice still carries some weight,” Jonathan Peterlin of 92.3 The Fan said Monday. “So when he said it today, my first thought was, is Shedeur trying to push this? Deion wants the Browns to take a WR at (No.) 6 because, obviously, that helps out Shedeur.”
Carnell Tate Safer WR Prospect Than Jordyn Tyson for Browns Inside Top 10
GettyArizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson.
Tyson has a history at the University of Colorado, where Deion Sanders is the head coach, which is worth noting. Cleveland is in the market for a No. 1 wideout to place alongside/ahead of Jerry Jeudy in that position group, both in the short-term and the longterm, which is worth mentioning as well.
That said, Carnell Tate of Ohio State is the more frequently mocked WR target to the Browns with pick No. 6 because he is simply the safer play from a health and production standpoint.
Evaluating the NFL success of a handful of OSU receivers currently dominating the league and projecting that onto Tate isn’t necessarily a sound argument, as he is a different player with different circumstances and skill sets, etc.
That said, the Buckeyes have proven such a factory for standout pro wideouts, and Tate’s abilities (not the least of which is his durability) has top scouts believing in him as a potential WR1 at the highest level, which is a status so many of his recent predecessors have achieved.
There is little question that Tyson is the flashier option, but he’s also the less certain option. Browns GM Andrew Berry took a practical approach to last year’s draft by hunting prospects he was sure he could count on across Days 1 and 2, a strategy that paid off in the form of perhaps the best class in the league in 2025.
Thus, it makes sense that Berry would take the can’t-miss route with Tate over the high-ceiling, high-risk route with Tyson if Cleveland sticks and picks at No. 6.
Browns Exceedingly Likely Candidate to Make First-Round Trade
GettyCleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry.
There is also the possibility of the Browns trading down to consider.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reported a high likelihood of that outcome during an interview with ESPN Cleveland Monday.
“I was told by a source with the team that it would be shortsighted to assume that they’re just going to fulfill two needs with their two first-round picks and just go from there,” Fowler said. “They’re very open to a surprise here.”
There could be several opportunities to find value by moving down from No. 6 into the early-to-mid-teens, where the Browns could still get ahead of what The Ringer’s Todd McShay expects to be a run on the offensive tackle position that will begin somewhere around, or shortly after, the mid-point of Round 1.
That would mean a Cleveland trade back, the Browns picking an offensive tackle first and then looking at one of the quality WR options a tier below Tyson, Tate and Makai Lemon when the team makes its second first-round pick at No. 24.
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