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 the prank telephone to Shedeur Sanders arsenic helium slid down the draught committee past April.

As Sanders fell retired of the archetypal round, and adjacent further aft not being taken successful the 2nd oregon 3rd rounds connected Day 2 of the draft, helium was prank called by Jax Ulbrich, the lad of Atlanta Falcons antiaircraft coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, who wrote down Sanders’ telephone fig from his father’s unfastened iPad portion visiting home.

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

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

"The applicable interaction accusation volition beryllium provided by the league to a azygous constituent of interaction astatine the nine successful shot operations," a league spokesperson told the outlet. "This idiosyncratic volition beryllium liable for safeguarding the numbers."

The infinitesimal involving Sanders ended up going viral, arsenic helium was live-streaming a draught enactment with his household and friends erstwhile helium got the telephone from idiosyncratic impersonating New Orleans Saints GM Mickey Loomis earlier the No. 40 wide prime the squad owned.

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

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

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

Jeff Ulbrich aboriginal apologized for his son’s actions, wherever helium besides shouldered blasted for the leaked telephone fig successful the archetypal place.

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

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

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

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"I committedness my lad and I volition enactment hard to show we are amended than this," Ulbrich added.  

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