{"id":620234,"date":"2026-05-03T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:19:07","slug":"shedeur-sanders-returns-to-colorado-to-get-his-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620234\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders returns to Colorado to get his degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the five years since the NIL era obliterated the facade that college football players are there for college, not much has been said about grade-point averages or graduation rates. So it\u2019s nice to get a periodic reminder that, at some level, the college part of things still matters.<\/p>\n<p>Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders returned to Colorado on Saturday <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2026\/05\/shedeur-sanders-returns-to-colorado-to-receive-his-diploma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to get his degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sanders walked the stage at graduation to secure a degree in sociology.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders left the school a year ago to enter the NFL draft. Now entering his second season, Sanders is competing with Deshaun Watson to be the starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, Sanders started seven games. He won three games for the Browns, who otherwise went 2-8 last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the five years since the NIL era obliterated the facade that college football players are there for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-620234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}