New York Giants rookie cross rusher Abdul Carter additionally obtained a prank name in the course of the NFL draft, agent Drew Rosenhaus instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
The decision got here Thursday night time when the Jacksonville Jaguars had been on the clock after buying the No. 2 decide from the Cleveland Browns in a blockbuster commerce. The caller stated he was from the Jaguars and instructed Carter they had been going to pick out him second total.
“It is unlucky that these non-public numbers are attending to the folks making the prank calls,” Rosenhaus instructed Schefter. “Abdul and I knew it was B.S. and did not even inform his household concerning the name.”
The Jaguars, after all, chosen Travis Hunter with their decide, then Carter was picked at No. 3 by the Giants.
The NFL fined the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 on Wednesday after Ulbrich’s son made a prank name to now-Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the course of the NFL draft.
The NFL nonetheless is trying into the opposite prank calls made to gamers in the course of the draft, however it stated they’re unrelated to the decision made to Sanders.
Different gamers who obtained prank calls in the course of the draft embody the Browns’ Mason Graham, the Indianapolis Colts‘ Tyler Warren, the Philadelphia Eagles‘ Kyle McCord and the Buffalo Payments‘ Chase Lundt.
