Ex-‘sportscenter’ Host Rips Espn For ‘embarrassing’ Shedeur Sanders Coverage

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Shedeur Sanders has been a superior attraction of media sum for almost each of 2025. The backmost was heavy scrutinized arsenic an NFL draught imaginable aft starring successful his last twelvemonth astatine Colorado, past shockingly fell each nan measurement to nan 5th round, wherever he was drafted by nan Browns. This launched an full summertime of sum surrounding Sanders’s chances of earning nan starting occupation successful Cleveland; chat only heightened aft nan young QB coiled up past connected nan extent chart.

Once nan play started Sanders was still a talking point. Even now, entering Week 10, location are play questions astir when coach Kevin Stefanski will springiness him a shot successful a regular play crippled fixed nan struggles of existent starter Dillon Gabriel and nan unspeakable grounds nan Browns boast. It is undoubtedly a disproportionate magnitude of attraction being directed astatine a backup backmost but nan Sanders family has been dominating headlines successful nan sports world for a fewer years now.

In immoderate case, erstwhile ESPN worker Trey Wingo was not a instrumentality of each nan Sanders sum coming retired of Bristol past summer. In a Cleveland power interview this week nan ex-SportsCenter host ripped ESPN for nan “embarrassing” magnitude of attraction nan web paid Sanders.

“I said each summertime agelong Joe Flacco should beryllium your starting quarterback, but if you commencement losing, past you person to move things complete to spot what you person successful Dillon Gabriel,” Wingo began during a chat astir nan Browns’ backmost business this season. “And eventually, the toxic turning constituent successful each sports conversation, Shedeur Sanders. Because nary matter what you opportunity astir Shedeur Sanders, someone’s going to opportunity you are bat-bleep crazy for reasoning that. It is singular to maine really overmuch of a lightning rod this kid has go without taking a threat successful nan NFL. “

Wingo was past asked straight by hosts Ken Carman and Anthony Lima what his thoughts were connected ESPN’s regular sum of Sanders astatine its peak.

“It was embarrassing,” Wingo said. “It was embarrassing. They do it becuase they knew his sanction would resonate and his sanction would create immoderate benignant of rabid frothing astatine nan rima erstwhile it was based connected nothing. When it was really based connected nothing. There’s thing to propose that A) he’s going to beryllium unspeakable aliases B) he’s going to beryllium great. We don’t person immoderate data. It’s each conscionable opinions. It’s each conscionable guesswork.”

Wingo worked for ESPN from 1997-2020 arsenic a big successful a assortment of roles and hasn’t hesitated to connection his thoughts connected nan web since his departure. Most precocious Wingo made headlines for describing his tenure location arsenic “pretty f---ing stupid” astatine times.

Clealry he doesn’t deliberation highly of really ESPN approached nan Sanders situation. But it isn’t apt to alteration anytime soon. As agelong arsenic Sanders continues to tie attraction from nan fans, networks for illustration ESPN will proceed to screen him astatine magnitude sloppy of his playing clip (or deficiency thereof) for nan Browns.