Sheder Sanders was not the only recovery of Cleveland Browns to have fun during NFL draft.
The same goes for the selection of the first Tour of Cleveland and the former defensive striker of Michigan Mason Graham. Graham's father told Detroit Free Press Monday, Graham's phone “was constantly called” during the draft.
“Yeah – it happened,” Allen Graham told Free Press by SMS. “Someone made a tiktok during the crank the appellant and showed his number on the video … His phone was constantly called.”
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The nature of the farce calls has not been reported. Penn State End Tyler Warren would also have been stuffed on the evening of the draft. He ended up being drafted in n ° 14 in total by the Indianapolis colts.
Graham's experience certainly did not look like Sanders.
Sanders slide into the fifth round was the biggest history of the project. Projected in an inaccurate manner by some as a first-round perspective, the quarter-rear of Colorado was not selected before the 3rd day of the project on Saturday. ESPN's broadcast has been concentrated several times on Sanders in the first round on Thursday while each team needed a quarter-Arrière selected another player.
Mason Graham received several pranks' calls during the NFL draft, according to his father. (Adam Hunger / AP content services for NFL)
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During the second round on Friday, a person claiming to be the director general of the Saints of New Orleans, Mickey Loomis, called Sanders and told him that the saints were going to select him. Sanders video receiving the call was published on the internet.
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But it was not loomis. And the saints did not write Sanders.
It turns out that it was the 21 -year -old son of the defensive coordinator of the Falcons of Atlanta, Jeff Ulbrich, Jax Ulbrich, who appealed. The Falcons confirmed on Sunday that Jax had accessed Sanders telephone number from an iPad during his parents' visit before making the farce call. Jax apologized shared on social networks After being revealed as the stuffing in stuffing.
Graham did not have to wait a long time to hear his name called
The Browns were one of the quarter-Aiguë teams that went first and several times on the writing of Sanders. With their choice of first round, they selected Graham with the overall selection n ° 5. If someone made a Graham stuffing to be selected when he was not, he did not have to wait a long time to hear the good news.
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The Browns then went with two second round choices and a third round before addressing the quarter position with their second selection of the third round. But they didn't take Sanders. Instead, they selected the quarter of Oregon Dillon Gabriel.
When Sanders was always available with the 144th choice in the draft, the Browns saw a value proposal. They exchanged to select it in the fifth round. Sanders joins a congested quarter room which also includes Gabriel, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Deshaun Watson.