Amid the fallout of the prank call he received during the 2025 NFL Draft, ESPN’s Adam Schefter shared new details about how many people had Shedeur Sanders’ phone number. He revealed a text he received about the situation.

Sanders was one of a handful of players to receive prank calls during the draft. The former Colorado quarterback received a call from someone pretending to be New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis, who turned out to be the son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich.

Ulbrich’s son said he saw the number on an iPad his father left open last week. However, Schefter received a text from someone in the league who said Sanders’ number ended up more places. The reason, the person said, is because Sanders didn’t have an agent – which is usually the point of contact.

“I have not heard anybody talk about this,” Schefter said of the text on his podcast. “But I got a text on Sunday night that said, ‘The Shedeur prank thing is awful, but shows their naiveté by not hiring an agent. The fact that they had the league send his number to the entire football distribution list was such a mistake, one that wouldn’t have happened with an agent who would have handled that communication. I’ve never seen the league share a draft prospect’s number with the entire distribution list. As soon as I saw the email on Thursday of draft day, I was like, oh no. And the league probably shouldn’t have disseminated it knowing it was ripe for abuse.’

“So, we have a situation here where usually, an agent represents a player and when the league is disseminating numbers, they list the agent as a point of contact with the agent’s number. In this particular case, the league listed Shedeur Sanders’ name and his number because he was self-represented. That number got out there, it led to the prank call and here we are with the league saying it’s going to look into things.”

The call to Shedeur Sanders occurred Friday during the second and third rounds of the draft amid his fall down the board. Ultimately, the Cleveland Browns selected the former Colorado star in the fifth round of the draft on Saturday.

In the aftermath, the NFL said it would look into the call and how it happened, and the Falcons confirmed Ulbrich’s son was the one responsible. However, Schefter also noted the NFL will likely take some sort of steps to ensure such a situation never happens again – even though Sanders isn’t the first prospect, nor the only one in this year’s draft, to receive such a phone call.

“Now, the league is smart enough and savvy enough to know that they’re going to take steps to make sure this thing doesn’t repeat itself in the future because there were any number of prank calls,” Schefter said. “And I’m sure there were other years where there were prank calls, as well. But this one got so much attention that the league has to take steps moving forward to make sure that this never happens again.

“But it’s really interesting to think about it in those terms. When there’s an event and something happens that’s disgraceful and embarrassing and shameful like that prank call, it goes beyond just the one person who made the call. And in this particular case, there are a lot of people to blame in this particular situation – including the National Football League.”