Colorado football coach Deion Sanders revealed Thursday the next big possible career move for his middle son Shilo after he failed to make the roster of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
If Shilo doesn’t land a roster spot with another team, Sanders said Shilo has has “opportunities” in the acting profession.
Shilo, 25, has worked as a model and actor previously, having modeled clothes in Paris in 2024 and having portrayed his father in an episode of ‘BMF’ on the Starz premium cable channel.
Deion Sanders said on the Colorado Football Coaches Show Thursday that Shilo has had a “couple interviews” related to acting.
“I was gonna go down that avenue once upon a time,” Deion Sanders said on the show. “I think that’s the avenue that … or streaming … that Shilo’s gonna go down, because he has that gift, man.”
Shilo Sanders spoke of his ‘other interests’
Shilo played safety at Colorado under his father in 2023 and 2024 and signed with the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent before he was waived. He posted a video on YouTube Aug. 28 that noted the NFL is also known as the “Not For Long” league.
“You always want to have other interests that you’re interested in,” Shilo said then. “I’ve always done that my whole life playing football, with music, acting, modeling. I’m well-versed, and my parents make sure of that, so I’ve been prepared for anything that happen, cause you never know what could happen.”
Deion Sanders detailed how he once almost went into acting himself many years ago when he was playing football and baseball.
“Once upon a time, I was gonna surrender one of the sports − I’m not going to say which one − to go into acting,” Sanders said. “It’s almost like God pulled the carpet out of it because the movie was gonna be shot in New Orleans. I was gonna be like this undercover cop infiltrating this corrupt police.”
It never happened. Sanders is now preparing the Buffaloes to play Saturday againt Wyoming at home at 10:15 p.m. ET. His team is 1-2 and is expected to change quarterbacks again, this time going back to Liberty transfer Kaidon Salter, who started the first two games before being benched in favor of former third-string quarterback Ryan Staub.
“This is a much better team,” Sanders said. “But we’ve got to have stability from the quarterback position, and we’ve got to have consistency on the defensive side of the ball, stopping the run first and foremost. But we just got to do the things we’re capable of doing, because we have the personnel. But the personnel, they got to ball, man.”
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