The most important story of the 2025 NFL Draft was the slide of quarterback Shedeur Sanders, all the way in which right down to the fifth spherical, the place he was lastly chosen by the Cleveland Browns. The subplot to that story was a Day 2 prank cellphone name the place unknown callers pretended to be New Orleans Saints basic supervisor Mickey Loomis, telling Sanders he had been selected on the prime of the second spherical.
Clearly, it was not Loomis; Sanders was not chosen, and he needed to wait till nicely into day three earlier than getting an actual cellphone name from the Browns.
It was such a complicated story as a result of Sanders was utilizing a cellphone quantity that was solely identified by the 32 NFL groups and the league. For someone to get that quantity it might have needed to be that was both someone within the league with a group, or someone that had a connection to the league.
Because it seems, it was the latter.
The Atlanta Falcons issued a press release on Sunday saying that Jax Ulbrich, the 21-year-old son of defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, was one of many folks behind the prank name and the one who acquired the quantity.
The Falcons insist their coach had nothing to do with it, and that his son obtained the quantity when he noticed it on an open iPad.
