Shedeur Sanders prank call: NFL reportedly investigating how number was leaked during 2025 Draft
Shedeur Sanders‘ NFL Draft slide included a prank call during Friday’s Day 2 in which someone spoke to the former Colorado quarterback and pretended to be New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis. Video was released of Sanders being faked out at a potential selection, told he would have to “wait a little longer.”
An NFL official told Adam Schefter of ESPN that the league is looking into how Sanders’ private number was leaked and then used for the prank call. Sanders said that Boost Mobile sent him a specific phone for the draft and the number was only provided to NFL teams.
Sanders, once thought to be a potential first round pick, fell to the fifth round. The Cleveland Browns traded up to select him with the No. 144 overall pick, bringing an end to his stunning free-fall. Sanders addressed the prank call during his introductory press conference.
“It didn’t really have an impact on me because it was just like, I mean, okay, like I don’t feed into negativity or I don’t feed into that stuff,” Sanders said. “You’ve seen [it on the] YouTube video. My reaction to it, I don’t — it is what it is. I think of course it is childish. Of course, I feel like it was a childish act, but everybody does childish things here and there.”
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Kevin Stefanski on Shedeur Sanders prank call during draft: ‘People are morons’
The prank call came as the Saints were about to make their second-round selection. At the time, two quarterbacks had come off the board: Miami‘s Cam Ward and Ole Miss‘s Jaxson Dart. New Orleans did take a quarterback, but it wasn’t Sanders. Instead, they opted for Louisville‘s Tyler Shough.
Sanders wasn’t the first NFL Draft prospect to be prank-called during draft week, and he certainly won’t be the last. According to Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski, Sanders might not even be the only case this year alone.
“People are morons,” Stefanski said. “… I mean, it’s sad that these young men have to deal with this. That happened a lot in the green room in Green Bay. Guys were getting calls, so it’s silly, but onward and upward.”