With the No. 1 overall under contract and media reports indicating who the next three picks will be, some league insiders are wondering whether one or more of the reported picks is bullsh-t.

“In order for these reports to be true, someone from inside the war room has to be breaching the confidence of their own team,” one league source said. 

So the goal could be to intentionally put out bad information in order to get another team to trade up, now that they see that the guy they want is being strongly linked to another team.

The other dynamic is that some of the guys who are in the war room aren’t truly in the loop about what a team plans to do.

Indeed, Michael Smith of ESPN’s report as to the Raiders at No. 4 is that McFadden is the guy “unless someone wows them with a trade.”