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Raiders' 1st-round pick Ashton Jeanty also received prank call during NFL Draft, claiming he was traded

Nearly one week after the 2025 NFL Draft concluded, stories are still trickling out about prospects who received prank phone calls on presumably private numbers about being selected.

Add running back Ashton Jeanty to the list, although his story has a bit of a twist. After being selected No. 6 overall by the Las Vegas Raiders, Jeanty received a call telling him that he'd been traded to the Dallas Cowboys. However, the running back's fake news detector immediately set off and he knew that the conversation — which occurred 30 minutes after he'd been picked — was a farce.