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NFL Draft is poker season, and Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy might simply be its latest QB bluff

Three years ago, we saw it play out with Mac Jones at center stage. Two years ago, it was Malik Willis. And last year, we watched it unfold with Will Levis.

The NFL draft’s age-old quarterback bluff.

If you’ve followed the league’s annual sifting process long enough, you likely remember your team being attached to one of these storylines. Maybe it was the Houston Texans being pegged to take Johnny Manziel first overall in 2014, or the San Francisco 49ers’ infamous Aaron Rodgers okey-doke in 2005.