Jack Brickman
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I agree it sucks. I just don't think it is leaked for the purpose of driving down a players draft stock, so that the leaking team can then snatch them.
I know that's a common theory, but it has never made sense to me.
I'd say it's probably a PR thing. If you don't want to draft a guy because you flagged him, you want your fan base to know that so they can understand why you passed on him. There are teams out there whose fan bases desperately want them to draft a WR in the first round, and leaking something like this makes it reasonable to pass on a talent like Marshall.
At least, that's really the only logical reason I can think of to do it because, as you said, all the teams have access to the same information for the most part.