to the Steelers 2019 NFL Draft class by the experts in the national media"Of all the aspects of the annual draft process that make the least sense James Conner Jersey , it is hard to challenge the absurdity of grading a draft seconds after it has happened. Reports invariably written by the same media experts who assigned their own personal rankings to the prospects before they were picked, then go on to use those same evaluations when assessing the job done by the various teams, regardless of how inaccurate their projections were in the first place. If the expert had a player ranked in the first-round and he then slides to round five, the team that picked him got a steal and they are graded according, totally overlooking that fact that the evaluation clearly did not match with that of the 32 professional NFL teams who have done far more research. That being said, this has never stopped me from reading them, even if I do approach them with a degree of contempt. In general, the Pittsburgh Steelers 2019 NFL Draft class seems to have been relatively well received by the national media, with the move up for Devin Bush meeting with the approval of most experts. And by comparison to some fans who appear to be slightly disappointed with the team’s overall haul, it would be fair to say that the media might be more impressed with the draft class than some sections of SteelerNation. Listed from best to worst based on grade:Steve Silverman Cameron Sutton Jersey , Bleacher Report: AChad Reuter, NFL.com: A-Albert Breer, MMQB: A-Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News: A-Walter Football: A-Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN: B+Mark Maske, Washington Post: B+Pro Football Focus: Above AveragePete Prisco, CBS Sports: BDan Kadar, SB Nation: B-Nate Davis, USA Today: C Ian Rapoport of NFL Media dropped a bomb (or, as it may ultimately have been JuJu Smith-Schuster Jersey , a deuce) on the sports world by reporting late Thursday that the Steelers were close to trading receiver Antonio Brown to the Buffalo Bills.The tweet, posted at 11:28 p.m. ET, cited “sources” in support of this proclamation: “The Steelers are closing in on a deal to send star WR Antonio Brown to the Buffalo Bills. There it is.”Only there it isn’t.The pushback began not long after, with multiple reports indicating that a deal isn’t close, and that a deal isn’t even happening. Brown himself called it “fake news.” Adam Schefter of ESPN, who surely is delighted that one of his rivals apparently swung and missed (then again, “there are people who tell you things that sometimes come to be and sometimes don鈥檛“), posted a string of tweets saying that a trade to the Bills is “unlikely,” that a trade wasn’t “ever close to happening,” that talks with the Bills were “dead on Wednesday T. J. Watt Jersey ,” and that “nothing is close.”We heard from a source at about 3:00 a.m. ET who called the NFL Media report “erroneous,” and who said that a deal to the Bills is “not even close.”So what the hell is going on? Rapoport surely didn’t make it up. Someone (multiple someones, given the use of “sources”) whom he presumed to be in the know may have given him bad information, either accidentally or intentionally. If it was an accident, and if more than one person gave Rapoport false information accidentally, that would be unusual, to say the least.A deliberate leak of false information regarding an impending trade would make sense in this context, because the Steelers have created an artificial deadline of Friday for teams to get their best offers to the table. And if the goal is to hold an auction, a false report that a team is close to trading for Brown becomes the “” aimed at getting someone/anyone to jump.It’s also possible that a deal for a trade between the Steelers and Bills was close, and that no one had bothered to gauge Brown’s level of interest in playing for the Bills Chukwuma Okorafor Jersey , or the Bills level of interest in paying Brown more than the $39 million he’s due to make over the next three years. That would make Rapoport’s report true when it was posted, but it would make elements of Schefter’s tweets incorrect, especially the “dead on Wednesday” assertion.Then there’s the possibility that someone deliberately lied to Rapoport with the sole purpose of making him look bad. Likewise, there’s a theoretical chance that someone leaked within the Steelers or the Bills false information to a suspected leaker in the hopes of smoking out whether that person would indeed leak it. (Yes, that has happened before.)Then there’s this final possibility: The trade actually is going to happen. During the first segment of Friday’s , I got this text from Rapoport: “This deal is going through. Just confirmed again. My gut says AB doesn’t want to show.”So, basically, Friday is about to get interesting.