The Colorado Buffaloes posted a video on Tuesday of quarterback Shedeur Sanders throwing a touchdown pass to wide receiver LaJohntay Wester in practice, with a simple caption: “Darts only.”
The reception to the video was anything but simple.
The video featured two different shots of Sanders’ touchdown pass that made it seem like they were from two different plays meshed into one. In other words, one could conclude that it was an incomplete pass by Sanders, which Colorado’s social media team spliced with a different throw to make it look like a completion. And the vast majority of the thousands that interacted with the clip on X, where it has 8.9 million views and counting, seemed to believe just that.
Most of the responses to the clip accused Colorado’s social media team of editing it to make Shedeur, the team’s star quarterback and head coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders’ youngest…
