Giants' Abdul Carter experienced prank call like Shedeur Sanders, others on draft night: report

Add Abdul Carter to the database of NFL Draft prospects who were prank-called during the festivities precocious past week. 

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that Carter, the New York Giants' 3rd wide enactment connected Thursday night, got a prank telephone during the 2nd prime of the draft, which the Jacksonville Jaguars traded into from the Cleveland Browns. 

The prank said that Carter was going to beryllium taken with the 2nd pick. 

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, points retired New York Giants fans to borderline rusher Abdul Carter aft the Giants selected Carter with the 3rd prime during the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft connected Thursday, April 24, 2025 astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)

"It's unfortunate that these backstage numbers are getting to the radical making the prank calls," Drew Rosenhaus, Carter's agent, told ESPN. "Abdul and I knew it was BS and didn't adjacent archer his household astir the call."

Carter did not person to hold excessively agelong aft the prank, arsenic the Giants called his sanction for existent with the adjacent pick. However, helium was not the lone 1 dealing with pranksters connected draught day. 

Several others had to woody with fake calls, but nary much nationalist than Shedeur Sanders. 

SEVERAL NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS FALL VICTIM TO PRANK CALLS UNRELATED TO SHEDEUR SANDERS PRANK: REPORT

The NFL announced connected Wednesday it is fining the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and antiaircraft coordinator Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 implicit the leak of Sanders' backstage telephone fig utilized for draught time calls. 

Ulbrich's son, 21-year-old Jax, was astatine the halfway of Sanders' prank call, arsenic the Falcons announced successful a connection that helium had "unintentionally came crossed the draught interaction telephone fig for Shedeur sanders disconnected an unfastened iPad portion visiting his parent's location and wrote the fig down to aboriginal behaviour a prank call."

New York Giants first-round draught picks, Abdul Carter, left, and Jaxson Dart, airs for photos anterior to the commencement of the property conference. (Thomas Salus-Imagn Images)

While it was not Jax who called Sanders, 1 of his friends impersonated New Orleans Saints wide manager Mickey Loomis. 

Jax aboriginal issued an apology connected societal media, saying "what I did was wholly inexcusable, embarrassing and shameful."

Other than Sanders and Carter, Penn State's Tyler Warren was pranked erstwhile the New York Jets were connected the timepiece astatine No. 7 overall, per FOX Sports' Jordan Schultz.

The Associated Press besides learned that backmost Kyle McCord, antiaircraft tackle Mason Graham and violative tackle Chase Lundt were each progressive successful unrelated prank calls. 

New York Giants first-round draught prime Abdul Carter takes questions from the media during his instauration property conference. (Thomas Salus-Imagn Images)

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NFL.com noted however a league memo is sent retired each twelvemonth of players' telephone numbers and is marked "confidential." They are sent to the wide manager, caput manager and subordinate unit manager of each team, and that is all. 

The study added that each owner, caput manager and GM indispensable certify successful penning that nary violations were made, including "sharing of non-public information."

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