Leonard Floyd? Jack Conklin? The latest on the Giants’ first-round draft plans

8:54 AM ET

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Almost incomprehensibly, the day is finally here.

Yes, after months of combine workouts and pro days and medical rechecks and anonymous scouts and mock draft after mock draft after mock draft, the NFL draft begins tonight. The first round that unfolds starting at 8 p.m. ET is no mock. It’s the real deal. And it will answer all of your questions much better than any of us have been able to.

This is a dicey time of year for those of us charged with finding out what’s going on behind the scenes and relaying it to you. As you have heard many times, there’s a lot of lying, smoke-screening and misdirection going on from teams that don’t want their competitors to know what they’re up to. This is why I try to be very careful with what I report and how I report it. Before going with information, I think it’s important to ask how reliable the sources are, why they’re telling me what they’re telling me and whether the news value of the information justifies reporting it when it could be a detriment to one of the people involved.

So with all of that in mind, I want to spend this draft-morning post filling you in on the latest I’m hearing on the New York Giants’ first-round draft plans. This information is the result of many conversations I’ve had in recent days and weeks with people familiar with the Giants’ plans. Some of it differs from information I had earlier in the process, because I’ve endeavored to learn more and because the Giants’ plans have been fluid as the people in the building have worked to find consensus. In the past three days, for example, I’ve had people with direct knowledge of the situation tell me they’re sure the Giants will draft a defensive player in the first round and another such person tell me they were sure they were taking an offensive player. That’s what we’re dealing with here. …

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