Former Colorado safety Shilo Sanders is signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, per Tom Pelissero. The son of Deion Sanders has his pro home after not being drafted.

Shilo Sanders began his career at South Carolina in 2019, playing two seasons for the Gamecocks. He then transferred to Jackson State to follow his father before following him again, going to Colorado in 2023.

Over the course of two years at Colorado, he logged 137 tackles, three tackles for loss, one sack, one interception, five pass deflections, a pick six, three fumble recoveries, five forced fumbles and a fumble recovery for a touchdown. Sanders has 170 career tackles with South Carolina and Colorado at the Power Four level.

As a member of the Class of 2019, Sanders was a three-star recruit out of Cedar Hill (Texas) Trinity Leadership, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 69 overall prospect in the state, the No. 57 safety in the class and the No. 583 overall prospect in the class.

Sanders was not listed in NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein’s pre-NFL Draft scouting reports. On a related note, Deion Sanders clapped back at any criticism his son Shilo, or other son Shedeur, received prior to the draft. Shilo Sanders was widely regarded as a potential sixth or seventh round pick, if selected.

“First of all, it’s a blessing,” Sanders said. “They received a lot more ignorance than I did. You know, I received something, but we didn’t have the social media channels and all the different things that’s privy today … I mean, you got to understand I was a two sport guy at the time, so you could imagine what it would have been like with all the hate in the naysayers. I was a little different. It was a team I wanted to go to that made it possible for me to go to that team and that team only because I had the leverage of playing baseball, and I’m thankful that the Atlanta Falcons chose me. That’s where I wanted to go. 

“My kids don’t have the luxury of saying where they want to go. We would never do such a thing. And I told you, if that’s what would come to that, I would quietly talk to that team behind the curtains. I would never put them on blast for nothing of the sort. Shilo is working his butt off … I can’t wait to see how sharp he is. Shedeur is a workaholic. You guys know that he is who he is, and sometimes people forget what he’s accomplished here at CU and how accurate and how good he is, because you got to take a shot at somebody, and you might as well take a shot as a Sanders, we built for this.”