Seeing the phone ring on NFL Draft night has to be one of the most memorable moments of a top prospect’s entire life. But what happens if it's not an NFL head coach or general manager on the other end?
The biggest story of the 2025 NFL Draft weekend was Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders’s unexpected fall to the fifth round, but for a split second, the former first-round prospect may have thought he was coming off the board on Day 2. The NFL is now investigating a prank call that Sanders reportedly received on Friday night, with the shameful pranksters posing as New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis.
Sanders largely brushed off the incident in a conference call with Cleveland-area reporters after he was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round on Saturday, but it turns out that he wasn’t the only big-name prospect who fell victim to pranksters.
Sources: Penn State TE Tyler Warren was also prank called during the draft, receiving a call when the #Jets were on the clock at No. 7. I’m told Warren’s camp believes it was the same number and/or area code involved in the Shedeur Sanders prank on Friday night.
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Penn State tight end Tyler Warren prank called during NFL Draft
Tyler Warren was commonly mocked to the New York Jets with the No. 7 overall pick throughout the NFL Draft process, and the pranksters appear to have leveraged that knowledge to attempt to dupe Warren. The Jets selected Missouri right tackle Armand Membou seventh overall, and Warren ultimately fell to pick the Indianapolis Colts at No. 14 as the second tight end in the first round. Michigan tight end Colston Loveland went No. 10 overall to the Chicago Bears.
The most interesting part of the report is that Warren’s camp believes the call came from the same area code as the call Sanders received a day later.
In a video, Sanders said that he was given a private phone from Boost Mobile for the draft and that the number was only given to NFL personnel. The NFL is hoping to uncover how those numbers were leaked to the prank-callers.