Shedeur Sanders starts Colorado season with unreal four-touchdown night
By Christian Arnold,
2024-08-30
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders showed what he can do with the football in a big way during his first game of the year.
The son of Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders threw for 134 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter in Colorado’s season opener against North Dakota State on Thursday night, a 31-26 Colorado victory.
He finished the night with 445 passing yards, four touchdowns and one interception.
“It was cool,” Sanders said, per the Associated Press. “But every incompletion, it hurts me inside a little bit. I’m excited for the win, but (there are) definitely situations in that game I personally could’ve handled better.”
The Buffaloes quarterback completed all five pass attempts in the opening quarter as the Colorado offense put up 14 points through their first two possessions.
Sanders turned heads on Colorado’s first score of the game when he found Travis Hunter for a 41-yard touchdown pass to put the Buffaloes ahead.
Hunter made the short catch and then broke a tackle with no one else in front of him to run into the end zone, much to the delight of the Folsom Field crowd.
But Sanders outdid himself on the next drive when two plays in, the QB launched a pass to Jimmy Horn Jr. and connected on a 70-yard touchdown.
As the pocket collapsed, Sanders stepped forward to throw the ball to Horn just as he was about to be gobbled up, hitting the receiver in the middle of the field.
Horn juked around one defender and then sprinted up the sideline for the Buffaloes’ second touchdown.
The two touchdown throws stunned those watching the game and even had ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky making predictions for next year’s NFL draft.
The quarterback motioned to the sideline for a trainer to come out while he held his left leg.
The move forced the clock to stop and allowed time for Colorado’s defense to get on the field.
He returned for Colorado’s next offensive possession seemingly unscathed, throwing for two more touchdowns — both to Hunter — in the second half in the close win.
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