Colorado coach Deion Sanders says he plans to meet with new Cleveland Browns coach Todd Monken to discuss quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Sanders’ son, whom he coached from Pee Wee football through college.“I want to meet him because I think it’s vital that as a coach, not the dad, I can tell him a few things about (Shedeur), how to get him going,” Sanders said during a live appearance on “The Barbershop” podcast Thursday. “That wasn’t asked of me a year ago. I don’t understand it. Even a guy like Travis Hunter being drafted to Jacksonville, and I’ve had him for the last three (years), don’t you think you would want to talk to me to ask me what gets him going and what backs him off? You would want to know that.“So, I anticipate, and I can’t wait to have that conversation with coach Monken.”The Browns and then-coach Kevin Stefanski selected Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round after a shocking drop that became one of the biggest storylines of the 2025 NFL Draft. Sanders was viewed as one of the top quarterback prospects in the class, but was the sixth quarterback drafted. The Browns also drafted Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel 50 picks before Sanders.Sanders entered camp as one of four quarterbacks on the roster. After the Browns traded starter Joe Flacco and Gabriel suffered a concussion, Sanders debuted in Week 11 and started the season’s final seven games. The Browns went 3-4 in that stretch, finished 5-12 and fired Stefanski after the season.Sanders completed 120 of 212 passes (56.6 percent) for 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He was also sacked 23 times.“When he takes off his shirt, I see the scars on his back that he’s been through hell, but he’s made it through hell,” Deion Sanders said in the interview. “He kept going, and he matured, not like he was a child, but he matured spiritually.”Sanders also took issue with some reporting around his son’s predraft process, which some cited as a reason for his draft weekend drop.“It was some ignorant things (that) came out about him pre-draft and all that, and that was a lie,” Deion Sanders said. “Like, he would never go into a meeting with headphones on. He would never go into a meeting unprepared. Like, that’s just not who he is. There’s no way he could accomplish the things he accomplished without being prepared.”Shedeur Sanders spoke repeatedly last season about feeling like he didn’t get proper chances to prove himself and was struggling to deal with his place on the depth chart, which, for the first half of last offseason, was at the bottom.When Sanders made his NFL debut last November in the second half of a Browns loss to the Baltimore Ravens, he had yet to take a single practice snap with any of the Browns’ starters. Cleveland traded Flacco early last October, and though that move bumped Sanders to the role of primary backup, he still got live reps only in post-practice opportunity periods.After Sanders started the Browns’ preseason opener because of a rash of injuries across the quarterback depth chart, he suffered an oblique strain and failed to build on any momentum he might have created. He missed the following week and two joint practice sessions, and when he played against the Los Angeles Rams’ third and fourth-stringers in the Browns’ preseason finale, he took five sacks and failed to move the offense.The 2025 Browns appeared to be making up their quarterback plans on the fly, and a miserable season ended with Stefanski getting fired and the offense again finishing at the bottom of the league in multiple major categories. Still, Sanders was drafted only after the team had selected the rookie signal caller it intended to pick. Even as the Browns moved on from their two veteran quarterbacks, they still chose the third-rounder Gabriel over Sanders.If Sanders went “through hell” because he thought he should have been playing, that’s his feeling, but the whole thought that Stefanski held a personal grudge or that Sanders should have been playing early last season continues to come off as ridiculous. He was a fifth-round pick, was fourth in line for his first four months as a pro and then flopped in his final preseason opportunity.The early impression this offseason is that Monken and Sanders have developed a relationship.The Browns’ social media accounts shared pictures and video of Monken and Sanders in Monken’s office on one of the coach’s first days. Sanders gifted Monken a porcelain horse head for Monken’s birthday, and during last month’s voluntary minicamp, Sanders spoke glowingly of his new coach.“I think Coach (Monken) just spoke life into me,” Sanders said. “And then, like when you do that, you just get the best result for me. Honestly, that’s what you get.“I was here one day and (Monken) was like, ‘Well, if you want to be the best quarterback you want to be, then you got to do that on a daily regimen, daily time.’ So that’s what clicked for me. And then I was like, ‘OK, I need to improve this area.’ And it’s just one step at a time. You got to do this, you got to do this. You keep adding things as you start getting momentum and everything.“So, I think it’s just having coach just talking to you. I think that’s it. Just a relationship. I’m a relationship-based person, so I take relationships extremely serious.”