Shedeur Sanders details his leadership style with Colorado teammates
New Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders has a difficult job. As his father Deion Sanders takes over as the team’s head coach, he transferred in and now needs to be a leader on the team.
Now, Sanders has broken down his leadership style, explaining how he is working with his Colorado teammates.
“Well, that’s the thing,” Shedeur Sanders said. “It’s nothing that you try to do. You don’t try to be a leader, like, it’s either you or it’s not.”
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“Like I’m a different type of leader. I’m not with the rah-rah and all that type of stuff. I’m not that guy. I’m more of a laid back, chill guy. But when we’re between the lines and it’s time to put real work in, then it’s a different mode. It’s different,” Sanders explained.
“So, it just depends, like, I don’t force myself to be a leader. Leaders will just come and you’ll be able to see [that] when the lights come on.”
The Colorado spring game was the first time Shedeur Sanders competed in front of the Colorado fanbase and show off his leadership. After the game, he gave his thoughts on how the spring game itself went.
“I would say we’re heading in a great direction. Now I know what I want. Back then I was younger, so I was nervous. I was out there playing, and I didn’t understand what I wanted so I had to learn a lot,” Sanders said.
“Now I’ve got a couple of years under my belt, so I know exactly what I want, and I know how to get the best out of guys.”
Shedeur Sanders on Colorado’s fan turnout
Following the spring game, Shedeur Sanders praised Colorado fans for their turnout. For the game, 47,277 fans showed up. That’s a massive number for a spring game after a team finished 1-11 the previous season. However, as Shedeur Sanders explained, it wasn’t shocking to him.
“I don’t feel like it surprised us to where it shocked us because, mentally, we were putting ourselves through that atmosphere and the game-like situations each and every day going to practice. So now, when everybody else is able to see what we do at practice, then it’s a show. But we just approach practice like every day is a game. So, mentally we were already locked in, and we knew; OK, it’s gonna be a lot of people,” Sanders said.
“Before the game, everybody gets together. And they come, and they enjoy what’s going on. We gotta go out there and play. So, I can’t really enjoy it as much as they can. And I don’t really dap up too many people because I want to just have an extreme focus on the task at hand. So after the fact, we were able to mingle and just appreciate what was going on. But that’s the worst thing about a football player; during that time, we couldn’t really enjoy the fact that everybody came back. All the fans in the stands going crazy and stuff because we got to play each play for what it is. We’ve got to stay focused throughout the whole time.”