This 100%. Just ask Jemarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf and any number of other dopes that didn’t care about an education about having $ in hand but nothing to back it up. Sure Shaduer is different w generational wealth w his father but my point stands.
Shedeur isn't either of those guys though, nor is he remotely close to either of their situations when they were in college. The Portal, NIL and his pedigree have put him into a position that Russell and Leaf could have never fathomed.
He has a HOF father over one shoulder along with a litany of lawyers, agents and accountants guiding the path. For every luxury vehicle and gold chain, someone is there putting his money into places where it's going to earn more. A lot of these guys are far smarter about that kind of stuff today because of the resources made available to them and have to be because of the exposure of social media. Nothing is a secret anymore. Certain guys back in the 80s and 90s don't survive it with the shit they pulled. They were able to. Shedeur has access to NFL people who have gotten him this far and he's likely going to get drafted just as those guys did only with more infrastructure around him. There's a massive difference between his trajectory now vs Russell and Leaf back then.
And he obviously has Deion as a father and therefore safety net should finances go sideways.
There are plenty of people walking this earth that do not have college degrees and are doing just fine, and the majority of them don't have Deion Sanders as their father. While you and I probably value a college degree for ourselves and for our own children, there are obvious exceptions. Those exceptions probably don't manifest into opportunity for yours, me and mine but they exist nonetheless. The world is going to keep turning regardless of whether Shedeur Sanders gets a college degree. Jackson State, Colorado or wherever the hell he'd decide on will still be open later if he wanted to go back and get a degree if he decided it was worth it.
