Browns select Shedeur Sanders with 144th pick to end QB’s agonizing slide down NFL draft

• Quarterback had been expected to go in first two rounds
• Analysis: Sanders's fall exposes cruelties of draft

One of the most extraordinary storylines in the history of the NFL draft came to a conclusion on Saturday as the Cleveland Browns, finally, selected Shedeur Sanders with the 144th pick in the fifth round of this year's draft.

Sanders entered the draft as the most famous current college player in the United States. Not only was he a star quarterback at Colorado, he was coached there by his father, Deion, one of the greatest football players of all time and one of US sports' biggest personalities.