Deebo Samuel Perfectly Pranked 49ers Rookies With Massive Dinner Check

It’s quite the tradition in San Francisco for veteran players to prank rookies.

An NSFW video of Deebo Samuel asking two 49ers rookies to pay a more than $15,000 bill from Las Vegas went viral over the weekend, but it ended up being fake.

Samuel actually pulled a prank on the two rookies—Isaiah Winstead and Ronnie Bell—just to see what their reactions would be. The wide receiver quickly cleared up the video, which was posted on Winstead’s Instagram, by posting an explanation on Twitter. For one, the bill was only $2,500, he said.

“Lol was prank,” Samuel wrote. “wouldn’t do our two rook wideouts like that funny to see how scared they got though. Tab was only 2500.”

It’s unclear if Samuel still made Winstead and Bell pick up the check or if the veteran decided to cover it himself.

Just last season, the 49ers veterans pranked the rookies by asking them to pay a more than $300,000 dinner bill. That check ended up being fake, too. It sounds like this is quite the tradition in San Francisco.