"I didn't even know about it," Kiper Jr. said on the Adam Schefter Podcast (23:00 mark). "I was told… 'Mel, you're trending on Twitter.' I don't know what they said; I gotta believe it wasn't nice, but I didn't read one of them. I was told I was trending over Shedeur Sanders."

New Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders is reportedly receiving interest from a Canadian Football League team after he dropped to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Sanders' draft slide was the talk of the football world over the weekend.

It's not often that the 144th overall pick is the biggest story of the NFL draft. But Shedeur Sanders was not the usual 144th pick and his situation transcended football. The narrative around Sanders blurred lines between sports,