The New York Giants want to avoid mistakes of the old regime and it starts with eliminating information that is leaked before the NFL Draft. In past years, the old regime under general manager Jerry Reese had some key information leaks that new general manager Dave Gettleman aims to avoid.

ESPN's Jordan Raanan reported the Giants could focus on unique ways to avoid information leaking about their true interests in the draft. One of those ways includes the idea of providing misinformation on their interests on purpose as an attempt to provide misdirection for other teams tracking the Giants' intentions.

Be especially careful with most of what you hear out of the Quest Diagnostics Training Center this year. There might be an inordinate amount of misinformation coming from East Rutherford. The organization is extremely cognizant of what unfolded the past few years, with their interest in many of the players they coveted in the draft (Jack Conklin, Leonard Floyd and Garett Bolles to name a few) becoming public knowledge.

This is good news even though it could end up making the pre-draft period a frustrating time for Giants fans in need of immediate answers. The Giants' interest in several past top draft prospects became public information. Beat writers routinely predicted first-round picks correctly like Jason Pierre-Paul, among others, and usually correctly predicted/leaked to SNY's Ralph Vacchiano. Sometimes, the beat writers knew who the Giants wanted to select even if it didn't end up working out. The Giants were believed to be targeting edge rusher Leonard Floyd during the 2016 NFL Draft at No. 10 overall. The Chicago Bears traded up a couple spots ahead and to No. 9 overall where they drafted Floyd. The Giants settled with Eli Apple instead. The team has also previously had their interest in offensive tackles Jack Conklin and Garrett Bolles leaked ahead of the draft -- both players were selected just a few picks before the Giants.

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Our first-round draft blueprint for the Giants doesn't involve any information leaks, but it does involve a simple plan that takes into account prospect evaluations, position scarcity, and value-based drafting:

Gettleman's regime has been tight-lipped so far when it has come to hiring the new coaching staff from head coach Pat Shurmur to each individual assistant coach and we don't expect this to change during the draft season. There is no upside to leaking interest in a specific prospect and the slip of information comes with the downside of some team trading up to No. 1 overall to jump the Giants. The Giants already saw this happen with Floyd in the draft they ended up settling for Apple during and look how that has turned out.