NFL punishes Falcons for Shedeur Sanders prank call

The Cleveland Browns shocked everyone when they selected Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft after they selected Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel in the third round.

And while Sanders' slide was the most talked about story of draft weekend, so too was a prank call made to him while he waited to be drafted. The call was found out to have been made by Jax Ulbrich, the son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich. The NFL has handed down penalties to both the Falcons' organization and Ulbrich himself.

Per Adam Schefter, the NFL is fining the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and Ulbrich is being fined $100,000 for "failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the NFL Draft."

The NFL is clearly making an example of the Falcons to ensure something like this never happens again, and some may say they went a bit overboard with the amount of the fines.

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