NFL makes major punishment decision after Shedeur Sanders prank call with huge fines handed out

THE NFL has made a decision regarding fines for Shedeur Sanders’ draft day prank call.

The league determined who was at fault for the cruel prank call against Sanders and has levied fines against them.

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The NFL determined that the phone number leak came from the Atlanta Falcons.

The son of defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich reportedly got into an open iPad and got Sanders’ number off of it.

From there, he conducted the infamous prank call to trick Sanders into thinking he was drafted.

The NFL didn’t take this security breach lightly, and handed out heavy fines to the Falcons and Ulbrigh.

Atlanta has been ordered to pay $250,000 for the data breach, while Ulbrich is being fined $100,000.

The fines were for “failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the NFL Draft.”

Neither Ulbrich nor the Falcons will appeal the fine.

The defensive coordinator spoke about the situation at a press conference on Friday.

“My actions of not protecting confidential data were inexcusable,” Ulbrich said.

“My son’s actions were absolutely inexcusable, and for that we are both deeply sorry.

“I promise my son and I will work hard to demonstrate we are better than this.”

Ulbrich said he wasn’t aware of what happened until after the draft was over, and that he was “not happy and shocked” when he found out.

He reported the incident directly to the Falcons and worked to contact Shedeur and his father Deion Sanders.

Ulbrich said the Sanders family was “amazingly gracious — more gracious than they needed to be in a moment like this.”

The defensive coordinator’s son, Jax, called Sanders separately to apologize and released his own statement on social media.

“I’m so sorry I took away from your moment, it was selfish and childish,” he said.

“I could never imagine getting ready to celebrate one of the greatest moments of your life and I made a terrible mistake and messed with that moment.

“Thank you for accepting my call earlier today, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”

Sanders spoke about the prank call in his introductory press conference with the Cleveland Browns, and didn’t harbor any ill will towards the Ulbrich family.

“It didn’t really have an impact on me,” Sanders said.

“It was just like, I mean, OK, like I don’t feed into negativity, or I don’t feed into that stuff. You’ve seen on Deion [Sanders] Jr.’s YouTube video my reaction to it, I don’t — it is what it is.

“I think, of course, it is childish. Of course, I feel like it was a childish act, but everybody does childish things here and there.”