{"id":678045,"date":"2026-06-01T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:07","slug":"the-shilo-sanders-bankruptcy-mess-apparently-could-have-been-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678045\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shilo Sanders bankruptcy mess apparently could have been avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free-agent safety Shilo Sanders faces a trial later this summer on the question of whether his bankruptcy case will discharge an $11.89 million civil verdict against him.<\/p>\n

All of it apparently could have been avoided.<\/p>\n

John Darjean, who sued Shilo more than a decade ago for injuries inflicted during a 2015 altercation, recently told Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today that Darjean initially would have settled the case for far less than $11.89 million, if Shilo\u2019s father, Deion, had handled the situation differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have taken something<\/a>,\u201d Darjean said. \u201cI was thinking Deion was man enough to say, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s $200,000. I know my son messed your neck up. You\u2019re damaged.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Deion called Darjean a \u201creal life grifter\u201d in a 2016 interview with TMZ.<\/p>\n

\u201cLater on down the line, after he defamed my name, I wanted $100 million because I was that pissed off,\u201d Darjean told Schrotenboer.<\/p>\n

In the original lawsuit, Darjean claimed Shilo punched and elbowed Darjean in the neck at school, after he tried to confiscate Shilo\u2019s phone. Shilo failed to respond to the lawsuit, resulting in a default judgment of nearly $12 million.<\/p>\n

Shilo\u2019s bankruptcy case will discharge the debt, unless it is found to have been a \u201cwillful and malicious injury.\u201d That\u2019s the issue for the trial scheduled to commence on August 31.<\/p>\n

Darjean said that Shilo doesn\u2019t want to settle. Darjean also has called Deion \u201carrogant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will cut his own damn head off before he loses,\u201d Darjean said of Deion. \u201cThat\u2019s the type of person he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if the debt isn\u2019t discharged, Darjean would still have to collect it. The process is slow and cumbersome. Still, the debt would become a burden that would follow Shilo around until it\u2019s satisfied.<\/p>\n

Wherever the money comes from, it likely won\u2019t come from an NFL team. Although Shilo recently listed the Browns, Dolphins, and Cowboys as his preferred pro football destinations, he also said he\u2019s no longer training for football.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a special kind of guy to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any light in my tunnel<\/a>,\u201d Shilo said.<\/p>\n

The more immediate light is the moving train of a trial that could result in Shilo being stuck with the $11.89 million judgment that resulted from his failure to defend himself against Darjean\u2019s allegations when Shilo had the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free-agent safety Shilo Sanders faces a trial later this summer on the question of whether his bankruptcy case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-678045","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\/678045","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=678045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}