A look at 7 of the worst and most ridiculous takes from Ryan Clark during his time at ESPN

Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for some of the most unhinged, reckless, divisive, racially-obsessed, and delusional takes you’ll ever hear from a mainstream sports media personality.ESPN is parting ways with longtime NFL analyst Ryan Clark following an 11-year run at the network.(Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)As eventual Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders fell all the way to the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, sports personalities started crying and claiming racism was the reason for the fall.Mel Kiper had epic meltdowns on air in defense of Sanders.
Skip Bayless made outlandish claims.Then Clark jumped on ESPN and spewed more unfounded claims, focused predominantly on the color of Sanders’ skin, which was a classic move by Clark throughout his time at the "Worldwide Leader in Sports.""It's not just about him being Deion Sanders' son," Clark stated.
"It's about the bravado he carries.It's about the fact that he looks a certain way.
It is about the fact that the color of his skin sometimes at the position can be questioned."SHILO SANDERS MAKES ‘SANDWICH’ COMMENT TO FEMALE UNDER VIDEO CRITICIZING BROTHER SHEDEURFollowing the news that then-University of Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore was fired for having an affair with a female staffer, Clark made the situation about race, as he almost always did.While on "First Take," Clark made the asinine claim that black coaching candidates would not get hired, or at least have an extremely difficult time being hired, because of Moore’s actions."Sherrone Moore was the first African American head coach at Michigan.Now there's a community of coaches who will be judged because of his actions."In case you forgot, the day Moore was fired, police detained him following an incident at the apartment of his 32-year-old assistant with whom he had an affair, where he allegedly entered, used a telecommunications device maliciously, and threatened self-harm with butter knives.Sugges...