NFL suspends Cardinals scouting exec for allgedly leaking draft information to bettors

The NFL has indefinitely suspended Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold for violating the league’s gambling policy.The suspension was first reported by the Associated Press on Friday.According to a league investigation, Gold was “found to have provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding 2026 Draft selections by the Cardinals before the picks were announced, and Gold also participated in parlay bets on NFL and college games.”It hasn’t been announced whether or not Gold will be appealing the suspension.This is Gold’s 13th season with the Cardinals, and to make the situation even uglier, he was promoted to director of college scouting in June 2025.He previously spent three years as the franchise’s assistant director of college scouting after working for four seasons as a college scouting coordinator from 2018 to 2021.The Post reported that Kalshi did more than $15 million in trading volume for the 2026 spectacular in Pittsburgh — which almost solely moves on news.That’s why bookmakers often lament posting odds for the NFL draft.

If you beat the bookies to actionable info, like a team having a certain player at the top of their board, and you got that information from, say, their director of college scouting, you can blow up a market before they have time to react.“Bookmakers hate the draft,” Jeff Benson, Circa Sports director of operations, told Yahoo Sports in April.“It is tons of work for no gain, and we have zero chance to win.

We torch five to six figures a year on [it].”...