Colorado lands 5-star quarterback amid Deion Sanders NFL coaching rumors

The Colorado Buffaloes don’t play their adjacent crippled until Saturday erstwhile they instrumentality connected Kansas, but the shot programme had a large triumph connected Thursday.

Five-star backmost Julian Lewis committed to Colorado during "The Pat McAfee Show."

Lewis had been committed to USC since August 2023, reneged his committedness connected Sunday and made his power to Colorado official. 

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Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders walks to the sidelines earlier the crippled against Texas Tech, Nov. 9, 2024, successful Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)

Lewis is the No. 2 wide enlistee successful ESPN’s recruiting database. The backmost was initially the apical enlistee successful the people of 2026 but was reclassified to the 2025 people successful January.

Lewis, 6-foot-1, 195 pounds, is successful enactment to win Shedeur Sanders arsenic Colorado’s existent quarterback, arsenic Sanders is acceptable to beryllium a apical prime successful the 2025 NFL Draft. 

"Of course, it was large for maine conscionable coming successful aft Shedeur, conscionable seeing what he’s done to Colorado and what he’s turned it into. It’s decidedly a blessing getting enactment into this presumption coming aft him with his dad. I couldn’t bushed it," Lewis said during the show. 

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Carrollton Trojans backmost Julian Lewis has committed to the Colorado Buffaloes. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports/File)

Lewis said portion of the crushed for choosing Colorado is that Deion Sanders said that the champion players are going to play, giving Lewis perchance the accidental to commencement arsenic a freshman. 

Colorado securing Lewis’ committedness means the Buffaloes are improbable to aggressively enlistee idiosyncratic done the transportation portal. 

Sanders' sanction has been successful NFL caput coaching rumors, but Lewis' committedness signals that Colorado's caput manager mightiness not beryllium departing for the NFL anytime soon.  

Lewis is from Carrollton, Georgia, and precocious had an unofficial sojourn to the Georgia Bulldogs, on with showing involvement successful Indiana earlier committing to Colorado. 

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Carrollton Trojans backmost Julian Lewis has committed to the Colorado Buffaloes. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports/File)

Colorado is presently 8-2 and has a way to being successful the College Football Playoff. If the No. 16-ranked Buffaloes get a triumph implicit Kansas on with a No. 12 BYU nonaccomplishment to No. 21 Arizona State, it would springiness the Buffaloes the Big 12 lead.

The Big 12 pb would enactment Colorado successful automatic-bid territory. It would beryllium up to the committee to sanction the Buffaloes a No. 4 seed, but they would inactive request to triumph the Big 12 rubric crippled to guarantee a spot.

Fox News' Ryan Morik contributed to this report. 

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