Colorado State quarterback Shedur Sanders showed a lot of promise in his first game of the year of what he can do with the football.
The son of Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders threw for 134 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter of Colorado State's 31-26 season-opening victory on Thursday night.
He finished the night with 445 passing yards, four touchdowns and one interception.
“It was cool,” Sanders told The Associated Press, “but every time a pass falls incomplete it hurts a little bit. I'm happy we won, but there were definitely situations in that game that I personally could have handled better.”
The Buffaloes quarterback completed all five of his passes in the first quarter, and Colorado's offense scored 14 points on its first two attempts.
Sanders caught the eye with Colorado's first points of the game, throwing a 41-yard touchdown pass to Travis Hunter to put the Buffaloes ahead.
Hunter made a short catch, broke free of the tackles with no one in front of him and sprinted to the end zone, much to the delight of the Folsom Field crowd.
But Sanders outdid himself on the next drive, quarterbacking Jimmy Horn Jr. on the second play of the game for a 70-yard touchdown.
As the pocket collapsed, Sanders stepped forward to throw the ball to Horn, who was nearly swallowed and hit by the receiver in the middle of the field.
Horn evaded one defender and raced up the sideline to score the Buffaloes' second touchdown.
The two touchdown passes stunned viewers at the game and even prompted ESPN's Dan Orlovsky to make a prediction for next year's NFL Draft.
“I think Shedul Sanders will be in the top five next year.” Orlovsky wrote to X..
The touchdown pass wasn't the only thing people were talking about in the first half.
Sanders also appeared to have a seizure and collapsed. The Buffaloes failed to score on fourth down and North Dakota State immediately began rushing its offensive players down the field.
The quarterback, holding his left leg, signaled to the sideline for a trainer to come out.
The move stopped the clock, giving Colorado's defense time to get on the field.
He returned intact on Colorado's next possession and threw two more touchdown passes, both to Hunter, in the second half to seal a narrow victory.
