Giants draft pick Corey Ballentine called his college roommate’s father Sunday — but not to talk about what the dad thought.

Dwane Simmons’ father said that when Ballentine phoned him, the older man immediately began congratulating him on being picked by the Giants a day earlier.

“At first, I just felt like they were just calling, so I was like, ‘Hey Corey, congratulations!’ and this and that,” Simmons’ dad, Navarro, told the Kansas City affiliate KSHB-TV.

“Then, when [Ballentine] said, ‘No, Mr. Simmons, it’s not good. We’ve been shot,’ I just, like my heart just dropped, and I just hopped up out of bed. I was scared.”

Navarro Simmons said that as he drove from Kansas City to the hospital in Topeka where the young men were taken, he hoped his son’s injuries were minor, according to the Wichita Eagle.

Instead, they turned out to be fatal.

Meanwhile, Ballentine is expected to make a full recovery

“This was a senseless murder,” the grief-stricken father said of Dwane’s death. “This shattered a lot of people.”

The shooting erupted about 12:45 a.m. Sunday a few blocks from Washburn University in Topeka, where Ballentine and Simmons, both 23, were roommates and once played together for the Ichabods.

Ballentine was expected to make a full recovery.

Simmons’ family said they learned from police that the two young men were about to leave the party with other football players when a vehicle pulled up and the people inside asked them a question.

Suddenly, someone inside the vehicle opened fire as it circled back, Navarro Simmons said.

Todd Ashley, 24, was home when his sister informed him Sunday that his close cousin was killed.

“It broke me. I’m still in disbelief,” said Ashley, who described Simmons as a “ray of light.”

Other relatives described Simmons as an energetic college junior who dreamed of playing in the NFL — or “anywhere that would have him.”

The affable jokester was the life of any party, something he got from his dad, and also loved to dance, which he got from his mom, Chaquilla Everett, the family told the newspaper.

In a Facebook video Saturday, the elder Simmons congratulated Ballentine on getting drafted by the New York Giants as the 180th overall pick.

“Today’s the day,” Ballentine said in the clip. “Today’s the day,” a smiling Navarro responded.

His son’s killing is not the family’s first tragedy.

In 2000, his brother, Michael Simmons, 19, was gunned down during an attempted carjacking in Kansas City. His killer is serving a life sentence.

On Sunday, Navarro asked the person who killed his son to “turn yourself in.”

“You hurt a lot of people,” he said.

Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy