The mystery of how The quarter-arre Shemer Sanders was calculated during the NFL draft has been resolved. On Sunday, the Falcons of Atlanta confirmed that the 21 -year -old son of the defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich was behind the farce after meeting the Sanders special phone phone number.
Falcons published a declaration Explain the situation and offer “sincere apologies” to Sanders and his family. In the meantime, Ulbrich Jax's son poster Public apology to Sanders on Instagram, both as a post and a story.
“Friday evening, I made a huge mistake. Sheder, what I did was completely inexcusable, embarrassing and ashamed. I am really sorry to have removed your moment, it was selfish and childish,” wrote Jax Ulbrich in the excuses. “I could never imagine preparing myself to celebrate one of the greatest moments of your life and I made a terrible mistake and I played with this moment.”
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Ulbrich added that he had called Sanders earlier to apologize and thanked her for accepting the call. “I hope you can find in your heart to forgive me,” he added.
(The name of Sanders of origin of poorly spelled; Ulbrich then deleted the post and republished an corrected version.)
The Falcons said in their declaration that Jax Ulbrich “had involuntarily fell” the number for Sanders' draft on an open iPad during the visit of his parents and wrote it. Atlanta said Jeff Ulbrich was “ignorant” of both flight and farce to the fact.
“The Falcons of Atlanta do not tolerate this behavior and do not send our sincere apologies to Sheder Sanders and his family, with whom we were in contact to apologize, as well as to facilitate Jax family directly from Jax to the Sanders family,” the team wrote in the press release.
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Falcons also said they were in contact with the NFL and will cooperate with any investigation into the incident. The team added that it “examines all the protocols” in depth “to prevent any similar incident from occurring in the future.
On Friday, during the second round of the draft, Sanders was called on his draft phone by someone who claims to be the managing director of New Orleans, Mickey Loomis, shortly before choice n ° 40 of the team.
A video of the two ends of the call was made public; At the end of the jokes, two people are visible because one of them speaks to Sanders on the phone. Rumors had circulated that Jax Ulbrich had been the non-concrete of the video, although there was no evidence that the Falcons confirmed on Sunday.
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Sanders was Finally taken in the fifth round by the Browns of Cleveland.
The NFL is now Open an incident investigationAs well as a handful of other pamphlets of the recourse day that have been reported. The exact number of perspectives that have been calculated is unknown, but the recruit of the Indianapolis colts, Tyler Warren, would have been among the people affected. It is also difficult to know if Ulbrich was also involved in one of these incidents.
