THIS JUST IN: We Just Had Our First Major (Fake) Trade Of NFL Draft Week!!!

So this tweet popped up out of the blue and obviously caused mass hysteria on the timeline. Did Dave Gettleman ACTUALLY trade down? Why were the Chargers trading up to 11 without knowing who would actually be there other than that being an extremely Chargersy thing to do? Is the 2021 NFL Draft actually going to happen or are we going to talk about the same players for the rest of our lives?

However a little digging revealed that it was all a ruse.

Thank you Max Merten! You may be a lowdown dirty scoundrel for pulling this stunt on millions of fans who have been reading mock drafts until their eyeballs bleed. But you also reminded everybody about a very important lesson. Just because someone, even a well-known brand with a blue checkmark and more than a half a million followers, tweets out something with eye emojis, it does not make it true. Even if they throw the word SOURCES in the tweet or write everything while following proper AP style guidelines. Trolls like that no good trickster Uncle Chaps thrive during times like this when everyone's on edge about where some person is going to be collecting a paycheck for the next few years. So consider this blog a reminder for the rest of the week to keep your head on a swivel and your retweet finger in your holster until one of the Big 3 confirms any sort of breaking news (Big 3 = Rapsheet, Schefty, or Glazer. Yeah I'm keeping my guy Jay in the mix even though he doesn't break massive news all the time like Odell is going or if a Rams O-lineman caught the covid. #JayTrainForLife). 

*Also make sure it's actually those three guys tweeting and not some random account that is posing as them. It's 2021 for Christ sake people. We all need to be better.

PFF Grade For This Tweet: F-