Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders is the talk of the East-West Shrine Bowl this weekend, even though he isn’t participating at all. When Sanders and a litany of his Colorado Buffaloes teammates accepted their Shrine Bowl invites weeks ago,

As Saturday’s practices kicked off the Shrine Bowl week, Sanders was in street clothes with the West team. While it’s not uncommon for top-level prospects to eschew on-field practices, both the Shrine Bowl and Senior Bowl made noise about not allowing that for this year’s editions of the most significant all-star games.

There may have never been a more clear main event in recent East-West Shrine Bowl history than Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders. He's CBS Sports' No. 2 ranked quarterback prospect and No.