Pack up the tin foil hats and UFO paraphernalia … NFL agent Leigh Steinberg tells TMZ Sports activities the conspiracy principle that house owners blackballed Shedeur Sanders throughout final weekend’s draft is “nonsense.”

The previous Univ. of Colorado signal-caller, after all, was largely anticipated to be a first-round choose … however tumbled all the best way to the fifth spherical on Saturday — which had folks racing to social media to accuse franchises of colluding with each other to maintain Deion‘s son down.

Steinberg, although, informed us this week there’s simply no approach that really occurred.

“As a result of groups wish to add to their roster gamers that give them an opportunity to win,” he defined. “And that need to have the most effective gamers overruns every other conspiracy principle. Groups would draft a participant who’s bought nice expertise on the sector — he simply did not discover a match within the course of.”

As an alternative, Steinberg — Patrick Mahomes‘ agent — stated if folks wish to level the finger someplace … they need to begin with Shedeur’s pre-draft course of.

Steinberg informed us he believes not throwing on the mix — plus not getting ready sufficiently for interviews with basic managers — have been large causes for his slide.

He additionally stated the QB’s 13-12 report with the Buffaloes — and his well-known father’s massive shadow — probably performed a job as nicely.

Nonetheless, Steinberg informed us it may all be “a extremely good factor” for the younger Sanders’ profession — pointing on the market’s now no strain for the 23-year-old to start out instantly.