{"id":12936,"date":"2025-04-30T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12936\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:38:10","slug":"nfl-fines-falcons-jeff-ulbrich-after-shedeur-sanders-prank-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12936\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fines Falcons, Jeff Ulbrich After Shedeur Sanders Prank Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          NFL<br \/>\n                          Fines Falcons, Jeff Ulbrich<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Following Shedeur Prank<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published April 30, 2025 8:10 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250430_b641a113f80449b691b306b6f15e30f7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:34ae323d-5b7b-48f7-a6ff-85d2fcb09f77\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/b641a113f80449b691b306b6f15e30f7_md.jpg\" alt=\"jeff-ulbrich-getty-x-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NFL just punished the Atlanta Falcons and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich for their roles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/shedeur-sanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a> draft day prank call &#8230; stating the org. and coach messed up by allowing confidential info to get leaked.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons were fined $250k and Ulbrich an additional $100k for &#8220;failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the NFL Draft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone prank called Shedeur Sanders pretending to be apart of a team on stream telling him he would \u201c have to wait a little longer \u201c in the NFL draft \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G21HWpHNDQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/G21HWpHNDQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jayden (@Jayden77x) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jayden77x\/status\/1915936392770949404?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jayden77x\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Jayden77x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanders was on the receiving end of a bogus phone call on Day 2 of the event &#8230; with a male pretending to be New Orleans Saints owner Mickey Loomis hitting the ex-Colorado quarterback&#8217;s private line and telling him he&#8217;d have to wait a bit longer before getting picked.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was eventually revealed Ulbrich&#8217;s son, Jax, got hold of a list of prospects&#8217; numbers that was sent out to teams prior to the draft &#8230; and he was spotted witnessing the call in a video that circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shedeur prank call <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLmeyu82yQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XLmeyu82yQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dingus McDinkle (@DingusMcDinkle_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DingusMcDinkle_\/status\/1916162421430890608?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DingusMcDinkle_\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@DingusMcDinkle_<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/04\/27\/shedeur-sanders-draft-prank-call-son-falcons-coordinator-jeff-ulbrich-jax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jax later apologized for his role<\/a> &#8230; and said he called Sanders to express his regret.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons echoed Jax&#8217;s remorse &#8230; and said they would cooperate with the league&#8217;s investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Fines Falcons, Jeff Ulbrich &#8230; 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