Career Accolades
- 2022 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
- Wuerffel Trophy winner (2021)
- Allstate AFCA Good Works Team (2019)
- Wuerffel Trophy finalist (2019)
- Jason Witten Man of the Year finalist (2019)
- William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist (2019)
- National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society (2020)
- The Billy Anderson Commitment to Community Outreach Award (Offense) (2021)
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021)
As A Sixth Year (2021)
- Wuerffel Trophy winner
- Senior CLASS candidate
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- The Billy Anderson Commitment to Community Outreach Award (Offense)
- Stanford Scout Team Offensive Player of the Week (Week 2, USC)
- Appeared in all 12 games making one start at quarterback
- Also saw action on the punt unit
- Scored three touchdowns on the ground, gaining 66 yards on 22 carries
- Scored on a three-yard rush against No. 14 USC (Sept. 11)
- Ran for a touchdown against No. 3 Oregon (Oct. 2)
- Made his first start at quarterback against Utah . . . scored on a four-yard run . . . passed for 29 yards on three attempts (Nov. 5)
- Had a 17 yard completion and ran for a career high 37 yards at Oregon State (Nov. 13)
As A Fifth Year (2020)
- Played in two games
- Rushed three times for six yards and two touchdowns
- Made his Stanford debut, rushing one time on third down for a yard and a first down, at California in the 123rd Big Game (Nov. 27)
- Rushed two times for five yards and two touchdowns in a double-overtime win at UCLA (Dec. 19)
Prior to Stanford
- 2019 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
- 2019 Finalist for Wuerffel Trophy
- 2019 Finalist for Jason Witten Man of the Year
- 2019 Semifinalist for William V. Campbell Trophy
- Member of the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society
- AFCA Academic Achievement Award
- Graduate transfer from Air Force where he played from 2016-19 for head coach Troy Calhoun
- Graduated with a degree in Systems Engineering with a Human Factors Focus from Air Force and a minor in Spanish
- Played in 16 games with six starts as a Falcon
- Totaled 1,709 yards (953 passing, 756 rushing) with 13 touchdowns (nine rushing, four passing)
- Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete
- Hampshire Honor Society
- Completed Operations Air Force and was on the cadet cadre for survival training in the summer of 2018
- Completed a summer research program and was on the cadet leadership cadre for Basic Cadet Training in 2019
- Lettered three years in football and basketball and one year in track at Palmer Ridge
- High school coach was Tom Pulford
- All-state first team honoree as a senior in football
- All-conference second team in football as a junior
- All-conference third team honors in basketball as a senior
- Academic all-state honors multiple times
Personal
- Son of Joseph and Lourdes Sanders
- Father played football at Central Washington and the Rocky Mountain Thunder (indoor professional football team)
- Father also served in the Air Force for 20 years and taught at the Academy
- Mother played racquetball at University of Northern Colorado and was on the Mexican National Team
- Mother medaled in the Pan-American Games for racquetball in 1995
- Has two younger siblings, Jasmine and Josiah
- Uncle, Jomaine Sanders, played football at Northwestern State
- Involved with non-profit organization Undivided, a non-profit focused on strengthening communities and helping community members create positive change in their spheres of influence
- Served as a volunteer at several Fellowship of Christian Athletes summer camps and led a bible study at the Academy for classmates
- Has flown in the backseat of a fighter jet in Misawa, Japan as part of an Air Force Academy program