"I didn't even know about it," Kiper Jr. said on the Adam Schefter Podcast (23:00 mark). "I was told… 'Mel, you're trending on Twitter.' I don't know what they said; I gotta believe it wasn't nice, but I didn't read one of them. I was told I was trending over Shedeur Sanders."

Last weekend, during the 2025 NFL draft, we witnessed something pretty uncomfortable. Multiple analysts and pundits got tons of airtime to just rant and rave about former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and what they perceived to some sort of conspiracy or gross disrespect of Sanders as he slid to the fifth round.

While NFL fans on social media were expressing their anger and displeasure with the ESPN analyst, he was completely oblivious.