Best of NFL News Part 2: Top 10 WR Rankings, Rookie HAZING stories, "OVERPRICED" WRs artwork

Best of NFL News Part 2: Top 10 WR Rankings, Rookie HAZING stories, "OVERPRICED" WRs

Nightcap

July 18, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and Joe "King Iso" Johnson bring you the Best of NFL on Nightcap! The trio reacts to an anonymous NFL GM calling out the "overpriced" wide receivers,  rookie prank stories and much more!
Speakers: Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson
**Shannon Sharpe** (0:04)
And we prepped pranks on everybody. Man, I bring about six or seven tubes of toothpaste, cause in the morning, I'm gonna wake up in the morning and I'm gonna put toothpaste on somebody's door. So when they walk out and just pull the door, cause you know, I ain't nobody looking, they just closed the door. Come on, Sharpe, I'm laying in the bed. Man, I ain't nobody do that but Sharpe.
Man, I be like, so I go by the time I get to the cafeteria, man, you need to stop playing. I said, what are you talking about? I just woke up. Nah, man, ain't nobody do that but you stop playing. Or we'll put rubbing alcohol and set it on fire.
Hey, come out. Nah, man, Sharpe, leave us alone. Or we'll penny lock you in the room. You ever penny lock somebody in the room, Joe Ochocinco?

**Chad Johnson** (0:50)
Penny lock, what that mean?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:51)
Yeah, you take pennies and you know, it's just enough.
So you put pennies in the door so they can't open it. Either way, they can't pull it over or push it open.

**Chad Johnson** (1:02)
Oh, I ain't never seen that. I ain't either.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:06)
But we kept people penny locked in the room. Or we'll knock your peephole out. Hey, come on, man, I want to talk to you about something. Nah, Sharpe, you play too much.
Five Stinks, you're all in your room.

**Chad Johnson** (1:19)
Oh, that's messed up.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:20)
Oh, man, come on. The last night, man, we did the last time we was up in Greeley. This was in 2002
I'm sorry, Harpo, I got to get you up. I said, Harpo, I need a master key. Everybody called me Sharpe. Sharpe, what you need it for? I said, Sharpe, I said, Harpo, we got to get the rookies, man. They've been misbehaving.
He say, after we do room check, come down and get it. So now me, Burns, about five of us, we done went, we done went, I think it was King Supers or something, but we done got, we take all the trash cans. So we fill it up with syrup, water and flour, and we cut up the pillars and dump the feathers in there.

**Chad Johnson** (2:10)
Oh man.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:11)
Hey, by one o'clock, 1.3 in the morning, them jokers sleep.

**Chad Johnson** (2:19)
Hey, I know they were mad.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:20)
Hey, they sound asleep, Ocho and Joe.

**Chad Johnson** (2:26)
I know they were mad.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:28)
What?
Were they? Hey, hey, cause there's a rookie, man. You gon get gagged anyway.

**Chad Johnson** (2:35)
It don't matter what you do.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:37)
It don't matter if you doing everything right or if you doing everything. They gon get you, bro.
In Baltimore, we tied them up. We tied them up to the goal post, dunked war on them, put them in the cold tub.

**Chad Johnson** (2:48)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:49)
But in Denver, oh yeah, we got them. Man, we messed up so many. We messed up people's computers. I'm sorry, guys. I am so sorry that we messed up your computer.
Man. When they go to popcorn. But we did about 45 And all the, cause we gon get Bible, Stephen Sharpe, everybody flow.
We emptied those. That thing like a little wonderland. Yeah. Hey, hey, they gon get your keys at your locker while you in practice. And they popcorn your car off your Ocho. Man, you know how hard it is getting all this stuff out your car, bro.

**Chad Johnson** (3:20)
Yeah, I seen those clips. That's funny.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:22)
Joe, we steal somebody's car and drive it by the mile away, leave it running, doors open, lights on. Damn! By the time practice over with, that thing dead.

**Chad Johnson** (3:36)
I got off easy as a rookie.
The most they did to me, tied me to the gold post, left me out there, poured all the Gatorade out the practice, Gatorade on top of me, the water on top of me. That was pretty much it. And my rookie dinner, my rookie dinner, I had to pay for the receivers.
I got off easy.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:55)
Oh, yeah. And we're going to make you late. You got to be late. You got to be late for one practice because we're going to nail your locker shut.
Nail it shut. Man, come on, man. Who did this, man?

**Chad Johnson** (4:08)
Oh, man. Show them some fun.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:10)
Hey, hey, hey. Mel Snickers, we're Mel Snickers and put them in your helmet. Oh, yeah.

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