Deion Sanders Locks in JUCO Cornerback Ahead of Spring Camp as Son Shedeur Takes on Mentor Role at NFL Combine
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Deion Sanders is spending the offseason tearing Colorado’s secondary down to the studs. The unit struggled badly in 2025, and Prime knew a three-win season demanded a complete rebuild at the position. New safeties. New corners. A whole new look. With spring camp closing in fast, Sanders just made one more addition, and this one comes straight off a junior college campus in Georgia.
On Saturday, Colorado officially landed a commitment from Georgia Military College cornerback Donavon Stephens. Sanders now has close to 82 scholarship players heading into spring camp, with the cornerback room deeper than it has been in recent memory. The secondary already added safeties Boo Carter and Randon Fontenette through the portal, along with corners Justin Eaglin from James Madison, Cree Thomas from Notre Dame, and Jah Jah Boyd from Indiana.
Stephens enters a crowded room. The competition ahead of him is real and experienced. His most immediate value may come in practice, pushing that group daily rather than earning early snaps on Saturdays. Colorado needed bodies and competition at the position; Stephens gives them both. That’s nothing for a program trying to climb back toward relevance in the Big 12.
Sanders is building toward spring camp one signing at a time. Across town from that recruiting work, the Sanders family has another story running in parallel this week.
Deion Sanders’s Son Arrives at the Combine, Just Not as a Prospect
Indianapolis is buzzing with draft hopefuls this week. Shedeur Sanders is there too, but not to audition.
Per a Feb. 23 post on X by Richard Johnson, the Cleveland Browns quarterback will spend combine week mentoring prospects on how to handle team interviews. A year removed from his own draft process — one that ended with a stunning fifth-round fall — Sanders is now the guy other players are turning to for guidance behind closed doors.
#Browns QB Shedeur Sanders will be at the NFL Combine this week mentoring prospects on how to conduct themselves during team interviews 👏🏻
(via @AdamFerrellNFL) pic.twitter.com/giCBtFtg4P
— Richard Johnson (@RichJohnsonNFL) February 23, 2026
The irony is hard to miss. Sanders was labeled “brash” and “arrogant” by NFL insiders during his own combine experience in 2025. He slid to 144 despite being widely considered a top-five talent. Now he’s the one teaching younger prospects how to carry themselves in those same rooms.
That’s a full-circle moment worth paying attention to, for the Browns, for the draft class, and for everyone who wrote that fifth-round narrative in the first place.
