I don't believe all this conspiracy shit.

24 hour sports news needs to generate clicks.

You work at sports outlet and want to move up in your job.

At a certain point you need to either find new lightning-rod talking points and scoops OR manufacture them based on hearsay of what someone else is hearsaying.

No one has to pass someone an envelope to promote Johnny Manziel. He was a walking headline, whatever opinion you posted. Also anything to do with the draft and QBs in the draft is gas on a fire.

The same rumor mill has Trey Lance suddenly going third or fourth when everyone knows he is a borderline prospect as an NFL QB. Because that's where the news is, that's where the focus is from NFL teams and fans. Notice how nobody bothers to stir up any controversy regarding running backs or off-the-ball linebacker anymore?

20 years ago Sewell would have been a lock for the second pick of the board and Micah Parsons would be one of the names that was generating a lot of controversy.