Tom Brady shares his advice for Shedeur Sanders after draft slide

Tom Brady talked about the advice he gave Shedeur Sanders as he slid in the NFL Draft to the fifth round before the Cleveland Browns decisively selected him with the No pick Brady was the No pick of the NFL Draft out of Michigan The New England Patriots chose him Drew Bledsoe was the club s starting quarterback and Michael Bishop appeared in seven more games than Brady did in his rookie season John Freisz also made an appearance in CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMWhen Brady received the chance to take the reins from an injured Bledsoe at the start of the season he performed at an elite level The rest was truly history Brady appeared on the Impaulsive podcast with Logan Paul and Mike Majlak He was solicited about Sanders draft slide He reported he wasn t involved in Sanders evaluation process even as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders He critiqued the media s narrative around the draft before he shared his words of wisdom to Sanders So nobody knows I authentically texted Shedeur because I know him very well Brady mentioned And I disclosed Dude whatever happens wherever you go that s your first day Day matters more than the draft I was So who could speak on it better than me what that really means Use it as motivation You re gonna get your chances go take advantage of it Sanders had an NIL deal with the Brady Brand when he was the quarterback at Jackson State It helped start the relationship between the two athletes Sanders then transferred to Colorado once his father Deion Sanders took over as head coach SHEDEUR SANDERS FAN FILES M LAWSUIT AGAINST NFL FOR SHOCKING DRAFT SLIDE ALLEGING RACIAL DISCRIMINATIONBrady recalled watching the coverage around Aaron Rodgers during the draft Rodgers was projected to be a No pick before the San Francisco ers took Alex Smith I remember when they were talking about Aaron Rodgers sliding and Aaron slid to like in the first round or whatever it was I m like Dude you re the st pick in the first round I think they still think you re pretty good You re still a great player You re still a first-round pick in the NFL There s only of those guys every year So use it as motivation he explained Wherever you end up going it s still about your performance Like what do you do when you get there because you re gonna get there Brady mentioned that specific of the greats he played with on the Patriots were not high draft picks or selected at all including Rodney Harrison Wes Welker Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola He described the draft as particular overhyped day where a lot of people are selling stories and saying all right this is the big day it s the draft And it s an vital day it s fun and I love watching it and seeing it But I ve also been there on Day where they indeed gotta show up and learn a playbook learn to be a part of a locker room There s a lot of increase that requirements to happen Sanders will now look to win the starting job with the Browns He has to beat out Kenny Pickett Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel He has to show up every day because as a quarterback you have to be a leader Brady added And to me a leader is do I care about my teammates and do I care about what we re trying to accomplish Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter