Just my opinion, but a mistake a lot of fans make around the NFL draft is happening again with Sanders.
You have to understand the agendas at play.
SAS and ESPN have an agenda that is similar to Vegas setting odds: they're not making predictions, they're eliciting action. SAS himself has no opinions--he's a visible mouthpiece for the biggest sports entertainment conglomerate in the world. "He" is saying what will most evenly divide people into 2 camps, so they can not only argue, but so that the maximum number of people will return to the source of the argument to say "SEE: I was right!"
NFL teams have an agenda that transcends individual brands. If the Giants make more money than they did last year, Cleveland indirectly profits. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, so to speak. Teams don't care about winning, in the immediate sense. They care about remaining a viable brand, and to be a viable brand, they need everyone that has brand loyalty to believe they're trying to win a Super Bowl.
You can discern this truth by simply observing the rise in "savior or bust" marketing that has exploded coinciding with the NFL pushing the schedule release back to May. They used to drop the schedule in early April, before the draft, and it was nothing more than an event for the die hard nerds to plan road trips and days off from work around. But now? Now it comes out after the draft, so fans can take these savior narratives forward into week 1.
One prediction you can make with certainty, is that whichever team drafts Sanders--should it look like he will be a day one starter--will be on either TNF, SNF, or MNF week 1. Think of SAS as just filming advanced commerical packages for that game.
