One week after Shilo Sanders made headlines by telling a female reporter to “go make a sandwich,” the former pro football player is back in the news – this time due to a pending bankruptcy case.
According to a USA Today report published on Wednesday, May 6, Sanders, 26, allegedly owes $11 million in debt. The eight-figure sum comes from a 2015 incident when Sanders was accused of assaulting a former security guard at his high school, causing “serious injury.” The guard, John Darjean, sued Sanders and his parents, who were dropped from the case in 2019. (Shilo is the son of NFL legend Deion Sanders and his ex-wife, Pilar Biggers-Sanders.)
Darjean won an $11.89 million default judgment against Shilo in 2022 when Shilo did not show up for the trial. Then a student-athlete at Jackson State University, Shilo filed for bankruptcy in an effort to keep Darjean from collecting. Darjean, however, is arguing that because the debt stems from alleged “willful and malicious injury,” it should not be protected from a bankruptcy filing.
Shilo, for his part, has claimed that Darjean was the aggressor and that he acted in self-defense.
Shilo’s attorney is now looking to limit the scope of the bankruptcy trial strictly to the Darjean judgment and not expand to any other facet of Shilo’s life, according to documents viewed by USA Today.
Shilo’s trial is set to begin on August 31.
The news comes after Shilo made waves for telling the Cleveland Plain-Dealer’s Mary Kay Cabot to “go make a sandwich” after she suggested Deshaun Watson has the inside track to winning the Cleveland Browns’ starting quarterback job over his brother, Shedeur Sanders.
“Well, let me just say about that, that I really do believe that I’ve been an inspiration for lots of women and young girls to know that you can go out there and do a good job in a man’s world and take on all of that that comes with that,” Cabot, 64, said in response during an April 30 appearance on 92.3 The Fan.
She continued, “And I know that there are so many women who have joined the football world, especially because of things I’ve been able to do over the years, and I’m happy about that, and I know that will continue.”
Shilo didn’t back down, taking to Twitch where he went after Cabot’s credibility during a live stream on April 30.
“This is to Mary Kay: If you’re gonna be a reporter, be a reporter and report facts,” he said. “Whenever you have your opinion, and your opinion is always something hateful to Shedeur, then it makes it seem like it’s something weird, like, it’s an agenda you have going on.”
Shilo continued, “There is plenty of women in this field that take this serious and take reporting on football serious and actually do homework and study the game and get the statistics right and get the news right. But with you, it’s so much emotion that I don’t want you to make women look bad when it comes to reporting because you don’t have the will to actually want to report real things that are going on.”
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