Insiders say that Joe Burrow has been working with an NFL team with a pick later in the first round to bypass the Cincinnati Bengals at #1. "Joe's a good guy, and he values his reputation, so he does not want this to become an Eli Manning sort of thing. But he also does not want to play for a Mike Brown owned team."
In consultation with the trainers of an unnamed NFL team, Burrow--who has enormous NFL-ready 14" hands--took the opposite of whatever O.J. took at his trial to make his hand too big to fit in his glove. It worked, and Burrow's hands measured a pathetic 9" at the combine. Now the Bengals are reportedly having second thoughts.
Additionally, remembering how that video of Laremy Tunsil looking like an awesome weed-smoking alien from the future caused him to tumble down the draft board, Burrow's camp is reportedly also planning to leak a video in which he describes Cincinnati chili as "OK, I guess, but it's not really chili, you know?" to further discourage the Bengals from drafting him #1 overall.