Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders has found the permanent replacement for his son, Shedeur Sanders, at the quarterback position.
USA Today sends update on Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders’ plan to replace Shedeur Sanders at QB originally appeared on The Sporting News
Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders re-inserted Liberty Flames transfer Kaidon Salter back into the QB1 role for the team’s Week 4 matchup with the Wyoming Cowboys. Salter delivered with 390 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns during a 37-20 win at Folsom Field and looks poised to become Shedeur Sanders’ full-time replacement.
USA Today’s Brent Schrotenboer seemingly confirmed what we had all witnessed: Coach Prime will likely go back to Salter on a full-time basis after Ryan Staub failed to impress during CU’s 36-20 loss to the Houston Cougars at TDECU Stadium last week.
“Colorado football coach Deion Sanders finally may have found the right quarterback to replace his son Shedeur,” Schrotenboer wrote.
“After sorting through three candidates at the position so far, Sanders went back to the one his team picked up in the transfer portal last December. Kaidon Salter, the transfer from Liberty, answered the call with his legs and arm in a 37-20 win at home Saturday, Sept. 20, against Wyoming.
“Sanders has tried out three different quarterbacks this year as he attempts to replace his son Shedeur, now a backup quarterback with the Cleveland Browns.
“Salter started the first two games but was benched last week in favor of redshirt sophomore Ryan Staub, who struggled in a 36-20 loss at Houston Sept. 12. Sanders also had been frustrated with Salter previously because he seemed tentative at times and didn’t use his legs the way did at Liberty, where he led his team to a 13-1 season in 2023 as a dual-threat quarterback.”
Colorado finished with 497 yards of offense, which is something they shouldn’t expect against bigger and more physical Big 12 teams throughout their 2025 schedule, but is not something to be written off, either. Scoring on three of four drives in the second quarter, the Buffs' offense proved potent enough to build and sustain drive after drive.
Salter had the offense humming against a defense that came into the game No. 10 in red zone defense. Luckily, his big-play tendencies had the Buffs in only one red zone opportunity, which was converted. The other two scores were a 29-yard touchdown pass to Omarrion Miller and a 68-yard TD toss to Sincere Brown, the latter a spectacular YAC effort from the Campbell Fighting Camels transfer receiver.
Replacing a generational talent like Shedeur is never easy. While it was against a Mountain West squad that was a several-score underdog, Salter looked generational on Saturday night, too.
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