Laremy Tunsil’s Draft-Day Slide Shows Brutality of Teams’ Expectations

CHICAGO — Laremy Tunsil was in the green room here, waiting. Then came the video. Then came one of the craziest draft nights in history.

The video dropped on Twitter around 6:55 p.m. CDT, some 13 minutes before the start of the draft. The free fall began.     

At one point some months ago, Tunsil was so good that many personnel men believed he was the possible first pick in the entire draft. But as the draft process droned on and more chunks were taken out of his stock for a variety of reasons, he slipped slightly.

Then came that damn video.

It showed Tunsil smoking marijuana in a gas mask. As an Army veteran, I don’t remember the drill sergeants teaching us to use gas masks that way, but hey, to each their own.

The NFL Network’s Aditi Kinkhabwala reported that the Ravens, who were picking sixth, took Tunsil off their board entirely. DraftInsider’s Tony Pauline later learned they were prepared to take him. Before that damn video. 

Two other teams told me that while Tunsil was not removed from their boards, the video did have a massive impact. Sources on both teams said they were taken aback.

“A couple of us gathered around one guy’s laptop and watched it,” one team personnel executive said. “We all thought, ‘Why would you let someone tape you doing that?'”

One general manager said in a text to me: “It’s not just that [Tunsil] is smoking weed, it’s that you don’t know what’s coming next with him.”

He didn’t reveal if his team removed Tunsil from its board, or if he was moved down the board.

But the point is, the weed wasn’t the problem. …

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