Giants First-Rounder Abdul Carter Also Received A Prank Call On Draft Day
We've got pranksters on the loose.
Another NFL hopeful fell victim to a slew of prank calls on Draft Day(s). The list now includes top-three pick Abdul Carter, who reportedly received a prank call when the Jacksonville Jaguars were on the phone and picked second overall.
Carter went one pick later to the New York Giants. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, gave details on the prank as more incidents are coming up from the 2025 NFL Draft.
Edge Rusher Abdul Carter of Penn State poses after being selected third overall pick by the New York Giants during the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft at Lambeau Field on April 24, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
"It’s unfortunate that these private numbers are getting to the people making the prank calls," said Drew Rosenhaus, via ESPN. "Abdul and I knew it was bs and didn’t even tell his family about the call." Moments later, Carter got the real call from the Giants, the team that selected him third overall.
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The NFL is now probing how pranksters accessed prospects’ private numbers, with sources hinting at a possible leak from within team front offices.
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Alongside Shedeur Sanders, Tyler Warren, and Mason Graham, Abdul Carter is the latest case of a high-profile prospect getting punk’d.
Carter’s case is awful yet not as malicious as Prime cases like Shedeur Sanders or even Isaiah Bond, the latter of whom received a prank call stating that the Falcons were planning on taking him, only for Bond to go undrafted (for other reasons as well).
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