NFL restricts access to draft prospects' contact info after 2025 Shedeur Sanders prank call: report

The NFL is tightening its prospects’ interaction accusation database for this year’s NFL Draft aft nan prank telephone to Shedeur Sanders arsenic he slid down nan draught committee past April.

As Sanders fell retired of nan first round, and moreover further aft not being taken successful nan 2nd aliases 3rd rounds connected Day 2 of nan draft, he was prank called by Jax Ulbrich, nan boy of Atlanta Falcons protect coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, who wrote down Sanders’ telephone number from his father’s unfastened iPad while visiting home.

Now, nan NFL is limiting nan entree of nan prospects’ interaction accusation to 1 personification wrong each franchise, according to The Athletic.

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Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders (12) watches from nan sidelines precocious successful nan 4th fourth against nan Tennessee Titans astatine Huntington Bank Field connected Dec. 7, 2025. (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images)

"The applicable interaction accusation will beryllium provided by nan convention to a azygous constituent of interaction astatine nan nine successful shot operations," a convention spokesperson told nan outlet. "This individual will beryllium responsible for safeguarding nan numbers."

The infinitesimal involving Sanders ended up going viral, arsenic he was live-streaming a draft statement pinch his family and friends erstwhile he sewage nan telephone from personification impersonating New Orleans Saints GM Mickey Loomis earlier nan No. 40 wide prime nan squad owned.

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The Saints were among teams who were successful nan backmost marketplace heading into nan draft, and they didn’t prime 1 successful nan first round. Meanwhile, different quarterback-needy teams for illustration nan Tennessee Titans (Cam Ward, No. 1) and New York Giants (Jaxson Dart, No. 25) already settled nan position connected time one.

Instead of taking Sanders, nan Saints settled connected Louisville’s Tyler Shough successful nan 2nd round. Sanders would person to hold until nan 5th information to beryllium taken by nan Cleveland Browns, who besides selected Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel successful nan 3rd information nan time prior.

Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders reacts connected nan sideline during nan first half of an NFL shot crippled against nan San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, successful Cleveland. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

Jeff Ulbrich later apologized for his son’s actions, wherever he besides shouldered blasted for nan leaked telephone number successful nan first place.

"My actions of not protecting confidential information were inexcusable," Ulbrich said astatine a news convention astatine nan Falcons' facility. "My son's actions were perfectly inexcusable, and for that we are some profoundly sorry."

The NFL fined nan Falcons $250,000 and Jeff Ulbrich was docked $100,000.

Cleveland Browns backmost Shedeur Sanders looks to walk against nan Buffalo Bills during nan first half of an NFL shot crippled successful Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (David Richard/AP)

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"I committedness my boy and I will activity difficult to show we are amended than this," Ulbrich added.  

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