NFL Cracks Down on Draft Pranks

0:00It's April 20th, NFL News Today starts now, AI-powered, and game-ready. I'm Cory with the story. The NFL is cracking down on draft pranks after that wild incident with Shadoor Sanders last year. One year on from the 2025 draft, they're now limiting each team's access to prospect phone numbers to just one person in. Football operations. That single contact has to keep everything locked down tight. Flashback to draft night. Sanders was sliding on day two, live streaming with family, when he got a call pretending to be from the New Orleans Saints GM ahead of the number. Forty pick. Turns out, it was Jack's Obrick, the 21-year-old son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Obrick, who snagged the number from an open, iPad at his parents place. Sanders stayed cool about it, calling it a childish move that didn't phase him. He ended up going to the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round at number 144. The Falcons owned up quick, apologized to the family, and said Jeff had no clue until

1:01after. The league hit back hard, finding the Falcons $250,000, and Jeff Obrick $100,000 for the league. Sanders brushed it off like no big deal, but it blew up as one of the draft's biggest side stories. Now with this new rule in place, expect cleaner draft days ahead, no more row calls messing with prospects heads. The focus stays on the picks that matter.