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The NFL has started to provide project prospects selected with single-use phones, but this has become a problem for players, teams and, yes, the league itself, because the figures are disclosed with an unacceptable frequency now.
You know the leak of the phone number of Sheder Sanders. This was quite public and finally easy to solve.
Sanders phone supplied by the NFL
It was everywhere on social networks and the defensive coordinator of the Falcons of Atlanta, Jeff Ulbrich, had the number of Sanders, which was provided to him by e-mail of the NFL, and who sort of put in the hands of his 21-year-old son, Jax, who then facilitated a viral call to Sanders.
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October 7, 2023; Temple, Arizona, United States; The quarter of the Colorado Sheder Sanders Buffaloes (2) against the Arizona State Sun Devils at the Mountain America Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SPORTS)
What you may not know is that the Sanders phone received the call was not his. It was provided by the NFL a few days before the project.
Even Sanders said in one of his published videos of the incident that the phone “was not in my name”.
Adding Sanders: “I just received this phone yesterday.”
This is true because the NFL provided the phone so that the teams can be certain to immediately reach Sanders and other prospects and not have cross -communication lines when prospects could otherwise have been on their personal phones – perhaps communicating with friends and family or simply in a dead cellular zone.
NFL provides phones to help television
And here is the botter: the NFL began to provide these phones to a single use to ensure that its television drafts were not awkwardly interrupted or became uncomfortable with the phone calls that did not reach players, said a former league official on Thursday.
So, basically, the league provided phones on certain perspectives to ensure that the calls succeeded at the exact time the teams needed it and the exact moment the television partners wanted them to obtain calls in the air so that their emissions hummed their programs.
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October 19, 2024; Tucson, Arizona, United States; The Buffalos Quarter of Colorado Sheder Sanders before the match against the Arizona Wildcats in Arizona Stadium. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
The NFL provided the phones, then provided approximately 2,000 employees of the NFL and the club with the figures per e-mail, have confirmed several sources.
If this does not seem to be an ineffective way of ensuring that an NFL project program provides the emblematic prospect-reply-the appeal of the team’s moment, then consider these facts:
Sanders was part of a two -digit number of perspectives – some that have not been publicly identified – which received calls on their phones made by the League, said Thursday.
The NFL must investigate its own role
The NFL was a mother about this subject other than saying that she is investigating.
It is ironic because it is assumed that the NFL investigation should start with any other than the NFL itself.
Has the league sent the figures to a largely wide group of people? It is possible because not only the managers general, their staff and their coaches obtained the figures, but the members of the secondary staff and certain media also did, said a source.
Thus, public relations people, non-football leaders, even certain equipment managers and training staff may have obtained the list of figures delivered.
The League may have to respect the list of people who get the figures for its single-use phones in the future, because, well, it has a problem that it does not like.
And one of the reasons why the NFL does not like this problem is that it has become public.
In this only project, we know that the list of players who have received stuffing phone calls before being selected includes: Sanders, Giants Edge Rusher Abdul Carter, Browns Defensive Mason Graham, Colts End Tyler Warren, Josh Conedt, the commanders’ offensive line player, the offensive line Chase Lundt and the Eagles Darket Kyle Kyle McCord.
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The NFL commissioner underlines the fans of the New York giants on board the Rusher Abdul Carter after the Giants selected Carter with the third choice in the first round of the NFL 2025 draft on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The draft takes place until April 26. (Tork Mason / USA Today Network-Wisconsin)
Source: two -digit perspectives affected
There are others, according to a source.
“I received some stuffing calls earlier in the day from 609 numbers and 215 issues, so I agree, when I received this 215 telephone call, I thought it was another farce call,” McCord told journalists from the Philadelphia region. “But to get the phone and have [general manager] Howie [Roseman] On the other side, it was pretty cool. “”
McCord in fact obtained several stuffing calls even before the start of the project. There were so many that when the legitimate call came from the Eagles, he expected that it was another farce.
“I didn’t really think it was going to be legitimate, to be honest, because I received a bunch of 215 calls leading to the draft,” said McCord. “And, you know, of course, sitting there, impatient to see which region code appears and it was 215.
“So, I think, you know, I don’t know who it was going to be. And then I won the phone. I said:” Hello “, then to hear Howie’s voice on the other side, okay, not what I expected, but I was super pumped that it happened.”
Frame telephone calls are as old as telephone calls themselves.
And they are not new either in the NFL.
Not new but more problematic pranks
In 2013, two 20 -year -olds in a way obtained the director general of the Bills of the time, Buddy Nix, and the Director General of Buccaneers, Mark Dominik, during a conference call. And, surprisingly, during the call, the two GMs began to discuss free agency plans for six full minutes.
October 9, 2016; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; The New York Ryan Fitzpatrick (14-year-old) jets heated before a match against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Heinz Field. (Mark Konezny-USA today Sports)
Yes, funny, but not for the player who was mainly discussed: the quarter Ryan Fitzpatrick.
But the draft of NFL 2025 seems to be the boiling point of the league on stuffing calls.
Expect changes in the way he manages the distribution of figures, speculated the former league employee, even if his own investigation finds nothing wrong with his actions.
