Adam Schefter just wanted a phone that actually worked. What did he get instead? Some side-eyes from his family and ESPN straight-up ghosting him. Here’s the thing: With NFL free agency right around the corner, the man needed to level up but instead, he got hit with a corporate ‘nah’. You see, he has been rocking a glitchy iPhone 13, which, in tech years, might as well be from the Stone Age.

So when ESPN sent him a new phone, he was hyped up until he opened the box, and let us just say his wife and son couldn’t help but clown him. Hear it from the man himself. He posted a clip on X and stated: “I made a bold decision this past week. I had been on an iPhone 13. Now I don’t even know how old that model is… We got free agency next week, like texts are not working, emails glitchy, like the phone is just [not working]. So they [ESPN] sent me a new phone last week.

“And I opened it up, and it was a 15. And my wife and my son right away were like, ‘Why is it a 15? Why are you not getting the new model?’ I’m like, ‘This is what ESPN sends me. I don’t ask.’ So I call them up and ‘Is there any way I can get the newest one?’ No, this is what they do.

“Okay, so I went out to purchase the new 16 this weekend and as you know it’s a process to transition to a new phone. I was wondering: Do I wait to do this until after free agency or do I do it before free agency? And the 13 phone that I had was glitching enough that I decided to do it now.” So when Schefter visited the store to buy an iPhone 16, they asked him if he wanted to trade his old phone. He didn’t mind it. But later he realized that perhaps the company owned the old phone and they wouldn’t sign off on it!

But no, things didn’t stop here as well. After purchasing his new phone, he realized things he didn’t know earlier. None of his old chargers worked. “You find out something every day you need to adjust and adapt to,” he sighed.

At the end of the day, though, he is flexing. “I might be the only ESPN employee with a 16 right now,” he said. Whether that gives him a leg up on free agency news is TBD, but one thing’s clear—when ESPN fumbled the bag, Schefter made the clutch play himself. We wonder how ESPN will react to this.

That being said, the NFL free agency time is quite a hectic one. Ask Schefter. He would know. Back in March 2024, he shared some crazy statistics and this will help you understand why he needed a new phone so urgently.

Adam Schefter spent hours tracking roasters in March 2024!

NFL free agency always witnessed a lot of movements in roster transactions and, of course, NFL reporters are always looking for the inside scoop. Schefter was one amongst them in March 2024, constantly online, communicating and tracking whatever he could. The result?

In an Instagram video posted to ESPN’s NFL account, he could be seen holding two phones: One phone displayed a screen time of 14 hours and 58 minutes! The other one recorded two hours and 25 minutes. That meant that Schefter had to spend a total of 17 hours and 23 minutes of screen time that day tracking the free agency movements.

He was working around the clock as NFL teams conducted business into the evening and in the early morning.

Schefter even claimed that it was the first time ever that he checked his screen time. So for him, that was his all-time record. We wonder how many hours he will spend working on the NFL free agency this time.

On March 10 at noon ET, NFL teams will be allowed to contact and begin negotiating with players’ agents (players who are unrestricted free agents). The legal tampering period will end on March 12, 4 pm ET, after which the free agency signing period will begin officially. And that’s when fans will see all the reported contracts will become official.