Shedeur Sanders calls on Colorado to 'get busy' in transfer portal

Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders knows what time of year it is: transfer portal time. The Buffaloes saw an exodus and revival with the portal last season and it already began this season.

Multiple Colorado players already planned to enter the portal. So if Sanders wants some additional and new teammates, the team better get busy in the portal.

He was pretty honest in the team’s approach and likely his father, Deion Sanders’, plan.

“Portal opens soon let’s get busy (Bison emoji, smirk emoji),” Sanders wrote on Twitter.

Just go take a look at Colorado in the portal, it’s madness again!

Sanders and the Buffaloes finished just 4-8 last season after a 3-0 start. But with new offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur, some reinforcements on the offensive line and more, perhaps improvement is around the corner.

“He understands me as a person,” Sanders said of Shurmur. “I feel like that’s the main thing with anybody. You gotta have somebody that understands you. Somebody that you don’t have to change or you don’t have to act any type of way for; that you know that’s not judgmental.

“That’s why I feel like a lot of players like playing for dad because a lot of people don’t like the untraditional way of things of how college athletes do things or just anything in general. So, Coach Pat, we have a great relationship. He understands me [and] accepts me for who I am. And I feel like that’s the most important thing when having a quarterback-offensive coordinator relationship.”

While speaking to the media for spring, Deion Sanders brought up the report that he doesn’t do home visits unprompted. There’s been criticism of Sanders’ approach to recruiting and mostly emphasizing on the portal.

“Let me address something else that I think I need to address,” Deion Sanders said. “I don’t know who did it. I don’t know if they’re in here. If you are, you can raise your hand like we were in nursery and we said, ‘Here.’ There was an article that came out that said I don’t go on visits.”

In the Class of 2024, for instance, Colorado had the 66th-ranked recruiting class, according to the On3 Industry Ranking. That class had eight incoming freshmen commits in it, but 25 transfer players, which is why Colorado has the second-ranked class in the 2024 cycle.