Ex-Browns star Bernie Kosar rips Shedeur Sanders prankster: 'Beyond sadly disgusting'

Cleveland Browns fable Bernie Kosar ripped Shedeur Sanders’ prank caller arsenic details of the incidental were revealed connected Sunday.

Jax Ulbrich, the lad of Atlanta Falcons antiaircraft coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, was revealed to beryllium the culprit down the telephone made to Sanders arsenic the backmost fell from being a projected first-round draught prime to an eventual fifth-round selection. The Browns picked Sanders 144th overall.

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Cleveland Browns backmost Bernie Kosar, #19, successful enactment against the Miami Dolphins astatine Joe Robbie Stadium successful Miami connected Oct. 8, 1989. (USA Today Sports)

Kosar reacted to the revelation successful a station connected X.

"Wow beyond sadly disgusting," Kosar wrote. "Amazing Young Man Handling Himself truthful Awesome LIKE Shedeur Sanders Handling Himself. Go Browns."

Jax Ulbrich released an apology connected his Instagram account.

"On Friday night, I made a tremendous mistake," the station read. "Shedeur, what I did was wholly inexcusable, embarrassing, and shameful. I’m truthful atrocious I took distant from your moment, it was childish and selfish.

"I could ne'er ideate getting acceptable to observe 1 of the top moments of your beingness and I made a unspeakable mistake and messed up with that moment. Thank you for accepting my telephone earlier today, I anticipation you tin find it successful your bosom to forgive me."

Former Browns backmost Bernie Kosar, left, chats with erstwhile NFL backmost Tom Brady earlier an NFL shot crippled astatine Huntington Bank Field connected Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024 successful Cleveland. (Jeff Lange / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The NFL confirmed to Fox News Digital earlier connected Sunday that the league had launched a probe into the call. 

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The Falcons said that Jax Ulbrich had written the telephone fig down disconnected of an iPad that had been near retired successful the unfastened astatine his parents' house.

"Earlier successful the week, Jax Ulbrich, the 21-year-old lad of antiaircraft coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, unintentionally came crossed the draught interaction telephone fig for Shedeur Sanders disconnected an unfastened iPad portion visiting his parents' location and wrote the fig down to aboriginal behaviour a prank call. Jeff Ulbrich was unaware of the information vulnerability oregon immoderate facets of the prank and was made alert of the supra lone aft the fact," the squad said.

"The Atlanta Falcons bash not condone this behaviour and nonstop our sincere apologies to Shedeur Sanders and his family, who we person been successful interaction with to apologize to, arsenic good arsenic facilitate an apology straight from Jax to the Sanders family.

Colorado Buffaloes backmost Shedeur Sanders, #2, walks disconnected the tract aft Colorado’s nonaccomplishment against the Oregon State Beavers astatine Folsom Field successful Boulder, Colorado, connected Nov. 4, 2023. (Chet Strange-USA TODAY Sports)

"We person besides been successful interaction with the NFL and volition proceed to cooperate afloat with immoderate inquiries we whitethorn person from the NFL league office. We are thoroughly reviewing each protocols, and updating if necessary, to assistance forestall an incidental similar this from happening again."

Sanders was subjected to astatine slightest 2 prank calls during the draft.

The Browns yet selected Sanders with the No. 144 wide prime of the draft.

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"It didn’t truly person an interaction connected me, due to the fact that it was conscionable like, I mean, OK, similar I don’t provender into negativity, oregon I don’t provender into that stuff." Sanders told Cleveland media astir the prank call, via ESPN. "You’ve seen connected Deion [Sanders] Jr’s YouTube video. My absorption to it, I don’t – it is what it is. I think, of course, it’s childish. Of course, I consciousness similar it was a childish act, but everybody does childish things present and there."

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