{"id":73920,"date":"2025-05-23T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/73920\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:13:12","slug":"will-howard-reveals-he-was-prank-called-a-couple-times-during-2025-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/73920\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Howard Reveals He Was Prank Called ‘A Couple Times’ During 2025 Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shedeur Sanders may have caught all the headlines for the unfortunate prank call<\/a> he received as he was tumbling down the draft last month, but he was far from the only player affected by such nonsense. It turns out that Pittsburgh Steelers QB Will Howard, who had to wait all the way until the sixth round at No. 185 overall, received prank calls as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember sitting there, sitting on my couch pretty much the first three days,\u201d Howard said in a 1-on-1 interview with Missi Matthews via Steelers.com<\/a>. \u201cA couple times I just got a little impatient or wanted to get up and get a snack. So I ended up, right during the sixth round, I stood up and I went to the kitchen just \u2019cause I was tired of sitting in the same spot all day. And that was where I got the call. It was just a relief seeing that number come up, 412 number with Pittsburgh Steelers over top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had gotten prank called a couple times, so it was nice to actually have a real one.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to CBS Sports\u2019 Cody Benjamin<\/a>, the list of notable 2025 NFL Draft prospects who received prank calls includes:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders
\u2013 Syracuse QB Kyle McCord
\u2013 Texas WR Isaiah Bond
\u2013 Penn State TE Tyler Warren
\u2013 Oregon OT Josh Conerly Jr.
\u2013 UConn OT Chase Lundt
\u2013 Penn State EDGE Abdul Carter<\/p>\n

Will Howard can now be added to that list. The late-round quarterbacks got hit hard by this unfortunate trend. These players work tirelessly for most of their lives, and what is supposed to be the happiest moment of their life gets tainted by some bad actors.<\/p>\n

In Sanders\u2019 case, Atlanta Falcons DC Jeff Ulbrich\u2019s son Jax Ulbrich got ahold of privileged information by looking through his father\u2019s things to make the prank call. It is unclear how all these other prank calls went down. Sanders told the media he was given a phone specifically for the draft and the number was only given to NFL personnel. I can\u2019t imagine the league does that for every draft-eligible player, but maybe a list of notable prospects. Certainly, you would think Will Howard, a 2024 CFP national champion, would be one of those.<\/p>\n

Howard didn\u2019t let it damper his mood<\/a>. He looked plenty excited once the (real) call eventually came. Below is a clip of that moment via NFL Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders may have caught all the headlines for the unfortunate prank call he received as he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[80,3244,7,18712,18713,691,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-73920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-cbs-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-missi-matthews","12":"tag-steelers-com","13":"tag-trending","14":"tag-will-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}