New York Jets rookie tight end Kenyon Sadiq thought one of the most important calls of his life was a prank call.

The Jets drafted Sadiq with the No. 16 overall pick in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, but the 21-year-old wasn’t so sure at first.

“Kenyon, how you doing? This is Darren Mougey with the New York Jets,” Darren Mougey, the Jets general manager, said to start the phone call.

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“I’m doing good. How are you?” Sadiq responded.

“You’re doing good. We’re going to pick you right here and make you a New York Jet,” Mougey replied.

“OK. I appreciate it,” Sadiq said, still seeming to be a little apprehensive that he was actually talking to Mougey and not a prankster.

The former Oregon star seemed to realize that his NFL Draft dreams were turning into reality when head coach Aaron Glenn got on the phone.

“Kenyon, how you doing, buddy?” Glenn asked.

“I’m doing good. I’m excited, coach,” Sadiq said.

“Good. We’re excited, too, man. Listen, we’re going to bring you up here. You’re going to be a huge weapon for us. All right,” Glenn said.

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“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking it’s going to be a prank call for a second,” Sadiq said.

Glenn laughed and assured Sadiq that he was in fact, going to the Jets.

“No, we’re not pranking you, brother. No, you gonna be a jet. You gonna be a Jet. Trust me on that, man. You’ve been a target for us for a while,” Glenn said.

Sadiq starred at Oregon last season, as in 14 games he caught 51 passes for 560 yards and eight touchdowns. His eight touchdowns led all FBS tight ends and he was named a second-team All-American.

The Idaho native impressed at the NFL Combine in February when he ran a 4.39-second 40-yard dash. The impressive number was not only the best among all tight ends this year, but the fastest a tight end has run over the last 14 NFL combines.

Sadiq was the first of two weapons that the Jets added for new quarterback Geno Smith on Thursday. They traded back into the first round to select Indiana wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. with the No. 30 overall pick.

Cooper was a top receiver for Fernando Mendoza on Indiana’s national championship-winning team last season. In 16 games, he caught 69 passes for 937 yards and 13 touchdowns.

Sadiq and Cooper will join wide receiver Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall as Smith’s top weapons heading into next season.

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A substitute teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, who reportedly identifies as female, was arrested Thursday for making threats against a high school.

Loudoun County, a formerly ruby-red but now deep-blue suburb between Washington, D.C., and Winchester, has long been ground zero for transgender-related controversies, including sexual assaults on students and disputes over bathroom policies.

Hadyn Dollery, 19, of Chantilly, Virginia, was arrested and charged with making “threats of bodily injury” after local sheriffs received tips through the “Safe2Talk” application that the individual was threatening to commit violence at a high school near Aldie.

Dollery was later arrested, however, not on school property, and is being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center in Leesburg.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) to confirm a report that law enforcement told Washington’s ABC affiliate that Dollery identifies as female and is being housed with other men.

Dollery was a “non-licensed” substitute teacher for the 2025-26 school year and is no longer on the available substitute list for the district, according to FOX’s Washington affiliate.

Nineteen-year-olds may make themselves available as substitutes so long as they have a high school diploma or equivalency approved by the Virginia Department of Education, Loudoun County Public Schools told the affiliate.

Dan Adams, a spokesman for LCPS, told Fox News Digital the district does not discuss personnel matters.

“However, LCPS takes all threats seriously, as student and staff safety is our highest priority. In this case the substitute is no longer on our substitute list and will no longer be allowed to substitute at LCPS.”

Loudoun County Dep. Chris Freck wrote in the criminal complaint that Dollery threatened several people via the Discord app in a message to a friend, according to the Loudoun Times.

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The paper further reported the message or messages spoke of committing a “murder spree” at a school and that a “kill list” was identified.

Fox News Digital reached out to LCPS for further comment.

In 2021, Scott Smith — the father of a Loudoun County schoolgirl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a skirt-wearing, female-identifying biological male in a restroom — recounted to Fox News being tackled by police at a school board meeting where he sought to voice objections to school policies.

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“I am good with gay people and cross-gender people — anybody who wants to be a good American, I am good with — I went there to find out why our children were not safe,” he told “The Ingraham Angle.”

“The next thing I know, another parent-activist approached my wife and started antagonizing her, and I turned around and said stop.”

Smith said he tried to tell the woman how his daughter was assaulted in the restroom at Stone Bridge High School, but she persisted:

“She looked me dead in the face and said, ‘That’s not what happened.’ That struck me — how do you know what happened, you don’t even know me?”

Then-Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Fox News Digital at the time that Smith deserved a “universal apology” for that incident.

“He stood up for his daughter’s rights and his daughter had been sexually assaulted,” Youngkin said.

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the federal death penalty. 

“Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the DOJ memo obtained by Fox News read.

“Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” the memo read. 

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