I'm starting to get the feeling, after a full day's worth of the news cycle on this - that nothing's going to happen.
The majority of the press covering it is content to write it off as "meathead jock with a soft heart gets chumped hard" and leave it at that. The contingent of the press that is willing to look deeper is vastly outnumbered, and since pretty much everyone is already certain he's going to be drafted anyway, the low number of narratives that might be sexy enough to pursue will all dead-end in a low 1st/high 2nd round draft pick regardless, so expending energy trying to track the story to that inevitable conclusion will be seen as tedium, so eventually resources (what little there are) will be pulled from this weird, sad story, and spent on other, newer stories that don't have anything to do with this tiny circle of what-the-fuck closing in on itself.
At first, I thought this would be a big story, because a hoax on this level, lasting for this long, perpetuated on this level, fooling this many people and exposing such inherent laziness and incompetence on the part of the people paid to report on this stuff? How could it NOT be huge.
Turns out because the story is so big, and the hoax went for so long, and so many lazy, incompetent reporters are apparently just as simple as the people they spend their time covering, everyone would rather shrug and let this thing become a tiny, self-contained circus that people will only look at when it gets a little too loud in the backseat.
