DJ Bien-Ami said it best. Sauce is an S Tier sticky cover guy and a D tier Ball Hawk. Stingley is an A Tier sticky cover guy and an S tier Ball Hawk. Derek is the better CB for sure but doesn’t play in NYC where good players are treated and talked about like gods.
I wonder how often this happens. It seems to me that players are probably not reliable to keep secrets and are going to use whatever leverage they have with other teams to improve their draft position, so telling a player you will choose him if you aren't interested would probably only help most teams. But having said that, I feel like I don't often hear stories of players claiming they were told they would be drafted and then aren't, so maybe it isn't very common. Though I suppose teams could strongly hint at it.
