Interestingly enough, the New York Jets loved, and tried acquiring prized OT Laremy Tunsil; even more so after his gas mask demonstration video went public.
Once teams began passing on Tunsil, the Jets (selecting 20th overall), started to believe they had a legitimate shot at landing him.
NY Daily News has the scoop:
It was the 10th pick in the first round, the Giants were on the clock, their two top targets just went to teams trading up ahead of them and they had decided the gas mask/bong video that went viral on Twitter just 13 minutes before the draft was the final negative on Laremy Tunsil’s resume that made him undraftable.
Then the phone rang in the Giants draft room in East Rutherford. It rings all the time. This, however, was different. The caller ID was from the 973 area code. The Giants were not ordering dinner from Joe’s Pizza down a few exits on the Jersey Turnpike. The 973 is Woody Johnson country in Florham Park.
They were offering a trade.
The “trade” the Jets were offering was laughable–just one pick, and their second-rounder at that.
Instead, the Giants went ahead and filled a need in their defensive backfield and drafted CB Eli Apple out of Ohio State, and the Jets took his collegiate teammate, LB Darron Lee.
If Tunsil flames out, the general managers of all these teams will look like scholars. However, if he goes on to have a potentially Hall of Fame caliber career; NFL history won’t remember the teams who had the chance to get him at a bargain very kindly.