Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Kaidon Salter looks ready to take the reins in Boulder as Deion Sanders' QB1 in the post-Shedeur era.
Kaidon Salter sends NFSW message to Colorado Buffaloes football locker room after seemingly being named QB1 originally appeared on The Sporting News
Kaidon Salter appears to be Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes football coaching staff’s choice to be QB1 during the 2025 season, even if the possibility of four-star freshman recruit Julian Lewis getting snaps is on the table.
Salter was offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur’s choice for his “guy” in the quarterback room. Every position group presented their “guy,” but Salter showed the intangibles a QB1 needs to show to lead the locker room.
“Everybody's saying they want to make it to that Big 12 championship, that (expletive) starts at practice. We got to go out and eat every day. Eat every day. If you see your mama leaving your house and you gotta go to school at 6 in the morning, this (expletive) is for times like that,” Salter said, per On SI.
Considering how Coach Prime has recently discussed Salter, it’d hardly be a surprise to see CU choose the Liberty Flames transfer to take the lion’s share of snaps this coming season.
“Kaidon is a guy with multiple talents. He can throw the football. He can run the heck out of the football. Sometimes in practice, you don’t get a chance to see how good he is because when you run the quarterback, you know we can’t hit him,” Sanders said of Salter.
“But, you can see the burst, the speed, the knowledge of reading the defenses, and then he pulls it and keeps it. The kid is going to cause havoc. I’m just telling you.”
Salter getting benched after signing for nearly $600,000 in NIL compensation would’ve been a surprising outcome.
In truth, Salter was always what Shurmur wanted in the first campaign in Boulder post-Shedeur. It appears he’ll get a chance to lead the way into uncharted territory of Colorado’s “Prime Time” era.
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