Only thing I know about draft rumors is not to believe any of them. Mike Silver was in the room that day and saw the Rams draft board.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...arroom-drama-reveals-team-on-a-familiar-track
A couple of weeks before the draft, in an act that was part superstition and part subterfuge, Fisher moved Gurley's player card well below his actual slot on the draft board in the team's war room, placing him in the second-round range. "At that point," Fisher said, "(our interest in him) was on a need-to-know basis."
That set up quite the draft-room scene Thursday: After the
Giants selected Miami guard
Ereck Flowers with the ninth overall pick, Fisher instructed Sean Gustus, the area scout who'd given the initial grade on Gurley, to put the magnetic card "where it really belongs" on the draft board.
Gustus, Fisher recalled, "tried to stick it on the ceiling," as the scouts, coaches and other team officials in his midst broke out in celebratory laughter.
Predictably, there were no dissenters. Snead, who'd been speaking glowingly about Gurley since the runner's true freshman season, put it thusly: "When you'd pick out a game and watch his film, it was like watching a highlight reel. He just kept doing special things, play after play."
Said Fisher: "If it weren't for the injury, he probably wouldn't be a Ram. Because in everybody's opinion, he was a top two or three pick. When they say running backs don't have value anymore, that's not the case when it's a once-every-10-year back. That was the consensus in the building, and it was basically the consensus around the league."
