AP
The explosion of media covering the NFL has led to the creation of a key rule of thumb regarding the draft: Teams that love a player will leak negative information in the hopes the player fall to them, and teams that hate a player will tout him in the hopes that someone higher on the board will take him.
Steelers G.M. Kevin Colbert isn’t a fan of the practice.
“I think it’s horrible,” Colbert said during his annual pre-draft press conference, via Scott Brown of ESPN.com. “I think it’s really bad for our profession when people use whatever means they use to get information out to try to influence the draft and they talk about a kid’s test score, a kid’s injury, a kid’s character.