Tampa Bay Buccaneers Draft: Is consulting player agents a good idea?
It used to be that NFL teams would work together as the draft approached to help each other get an idea what player was drawing how much interest. It let teams know if players they had their eye on would be available when they were picking.
Plans could be made to trade up or down or scout someone else more heavily. But those days are waning. Teams have become more secretive about their plans, meaning that other arrangements have to be made to figure out the prospective draft order.
Tampa Bay has decided to go right to the source and ask player agents what they're hearing, reports Rick Stroud of The St. Petersburg Times.
What says that agents will tell them the truth? After all, what easier way is there to generate demand for your player than to create it and play that against another team?
Agents, of course, realize that teams will remember what they've been told by whom and compare it to how the draft plays out. That won't keep them from fudging the information a little bit. But nothing ever stopped teams from doing the same.
In the end, it's probably about the same reliability of information. Tampa Bay's smart to get what news they can.
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