BOULDER — Shedeur Sanders flu under the radar. Dude practiced one day last week. One. Before he went viral, No. 2 felt viral.
“It was tough out there getting the chemistry back with everybody,” the CU Buffs’ QB1 explained early Sunday morning, having powered through influenza to throw for 323 yards in a 34-23 win over Cincinnati. “Because you lose weight, you lose strength, you lose a lot of things.”
Not touch. Not zip. Not feel. Not mojo. Shedeur completed his first 15 passes. In a half. Against a good Cincinnati team. Against a Bearcats defense that allowed 19 completions to Texas Tech last month — over a whole game.
For the evening, Sanders threw it 30 times. He completed 25, with two touchdowns through the air and another on the ground. From a sick guy who was planting on one good leg by the end of the third quarter.
Travis Hunter checks in at 185 pounds. I mean, he takes up that much room on your Heisman Trophy ballot? Really?
“They’re not gonna give (it to) two players on the same team,” Sanders, son of second-year CU coach Deion Sanders, reflected with a shrug when asked about he and Hunter splitting, if not masticating, one another’s Heisman candidacies.
“Me and Trav, (we) just deal with it. It’s not gonna happen like that … so it is what it is. I don’t really look too deep into that. I just want Travis to win, of course. And that’ll be almost like I won. Because I threw him the ball.”
With that, Shedeur smiled. Even the most cynical scribes in the room had to chuckle at that one.
“Travis, he is the best player in college football, hands-down,” Son of Prime continued. “And I’m excited for him to win it. And that’s truly — that’ll just make my day right there.”
When ESPN.com asked 14 staff writers to participate in a mid-season Heisman poll back on Oct. 15, Shedeur didn’t land a single vote.
Boise State tailback Ashton Jeanty led the mock field with 11 first-place tallies, followed by Hunter (three), Miami QB Cam Ward, Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel and Indiana QB Kurtis Rourke.
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