Argonauts put quarterback Shedeur Sanders on their negotiation list

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Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, one of the more polarizing figures to come out of U.S. college football in years, could be destined for the Toronto Argonauts.

The son of former NFL Hall-of-Famer Deion Sanders, has been placed on the negotiation list of the Argos, the Canadian Football League club announced on Wednesday.

Despite being touted by some as a high first-round pick in the 2025 National Football League draft, the electric young Sanders — who threw for 147 touchdowns over a four-year NCAA career with Jackson State and Colorado and rushed for 17 more — plummeted all the way to the fifth round and wasn’t even the first quarterback selected by the Cleveland Browns.

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Now, numerous sources are reporting that, with training camp under way, the Browns are already looking beyond both the 23-year-old Sanders and third-round pick Dillon Gabriel as their possible QB of the future and have their eyes instead on Clemson’s Cade Klubnik with the first pick in the 2026 draft. There’s even talk that with veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett also in the congested Cleveland QB room, Sanders won’t even make the team.

The defending Grey Cup-champion Argos already have former CFL Most Outstanding Player Chad Kelly, 31, as their starting QB, though he has been recovering from an injury since the end of the 2024 season while veteran Nick Arbuckle guides the offence.

But the possibility of adding the uber-talented Sanders, whose skillset may be better suited to the CFL, would no doubt  be a major shot in the arm for the Argonauts’ lagging attendance figures.