Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.
Unless you’re talking about the NFL Draft.
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Every year as the draft inches closer and closer, reports start to leak about teams being interested in every player, prospects having serious injury concerns, and teams claiming to have taken certain players of their board. Most of this is nonsense.
The Jacksonville Jaguars showed no inkling of wanting to draft Blake Bortles with the third overall pick of the 2014 NFL Draft leading up to the night of the first round. Every analyst on television and on Twitter was shocked when Roger Goodell read Bortles’ name, and everyone was praising the Jaguars for keeping their intent under wraps.