{"id":26040,"date":"2025-04-27T21:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26040"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:49:53","slug":"atlanta-falcons-coachs-son-is-begging-for-forgiveness-after-confessing-to-shameful-prank-call-that-had-shedeur-sanders-tripping-out-during-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26040","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons Coach\u2019s Son Is Begging For Forgiveness After Confessing To \u201cShameful\u201d Prank Call That Had Shedeur Sanders Tripping Out During NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jax Ulbrich, the son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former interim Jets head coach Jeff Ulbrich, has been exposed as the perpetrator of the prank call made to\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/shedeur-sanders\/\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0draft.<\/p>\n<p>After Sanders dropped out of the first round, a video went viral of Sanders getting a prank phone call from someone pretending to be an NFL general manager.<\/p>\n<p>It was a terrible situation as his friends and family were genuinely excited about the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>After the draft was concluded, the NFL announced it was investigating the situation. It would only take a few hours for Jax Ulbrich to reveal he made the prank call and post a profuse apology to Sanders for the situation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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phone call and said that he had been able to get Sanders\u2019 number \u201coff an open iPad while visiting his parents\u2019 home and wrote the number down to later conduct a prank call.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" data-content-name=\"Google News Follow Us\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mai-link-exclude has-alt-background-color has-background has-light-background has-xs-padding-top has-xs-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has-xl-margin-top has-xl-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Sanders, along with several other prospects, received prank calls while they waited to be selected by an NFL team.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-shedeur-sanders-finally-gets-real-phone-call-from-the-cleveland-browns\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shedeur Sanders Finally Gets Real Phone Call From The Cleveland Browns<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2304174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-1024x563.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-595x327.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-1536x845.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/USATSI_24723402-1-2048x1126.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"Shedeur Sanders in Colorado uniform\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Shedeur Sanders (Photo via Michael C. Johnson-Imagn Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first two days of the 2025\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/nfl-draft\/\">NFL draft<\/a>\u00a0were dominated by Shedeur Sanders not being taken.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, a presumed first-round pick, fell to the third day of the draft.<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-3\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 plight was made worse when he received a prank call that he initially believed to be from New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis.<\/p>\n<p>Following that situation, he would soon receive a real call from the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>\u00a0and get selected in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pw-ad-container-logo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jax Ulbrich, the son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former interim Jets head coach Jeff Ulbrich, has been exposed as the perpetrator of the prank call made to\u00a0Shedeur Sanders\u00a0during &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26042,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions\/26042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}