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With the NFL Draft behind us, Detroit Lions training camp will be here before you know it. While rookie minicamp and OTAs will give us a taste of the 2025 Lions team, the limitations on practice at that point in the offseason will restrict our ability to scout both the team and individual players.

First up in our film review of the Detroit Lions’ 2025 draft class is first-round pick and defensive tackle out of Ohio State, Tyleik Williams. If you are looking for a video to go along with this written film study, be sure to check out our work over on the Pride of Detroit YouTube channel.

With the 2025 NFL Draft now in the rearview, many NFL fans are now setting their sights on May 14, which is set to be the league’s schedule release day. In the past, not much was made of the occasion, but over the last several years, much like they do with anything and everything—the NFL…

Ever since his brutal leg injury against the Dallas Cowboys last October, we’ve been patiently awaiting the return of Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson. A month ago at The Masters golf tournament, Hutchinson revealed he was in the final stages of his rehab, and that appears to have been the truth.

The Detroit Lions’ 2025 draft wasn’t really about value. Detroit was aggressive in grabbing three top-70 players, trading up twice with negative trade value. No one will care if the players they grabbed hit, but by some metrics Detroit’s picks quite literally had the lowest value in the league.

We can stand here all we want and try to break down the Detroit Lions’ 2025 NFL Draft class all we want. But isn’t it better to just hear it from the man who drafted them himself? Lions general manager Brad Holmes met with the media after every night of the draft, he talked to…

Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes knows that his most questioned pick in the 2025 NFL Draft was Arkansas wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa—particularly after a costly trade up in the third round. But during a radio appearance on 97.1 The Ticket this week, Holmes admitted that while he may not have been the best receiver…

When looking back on NFL Draft results, sometimes it’s not the decision that a general manager made, but a decision they didn’t make that sank their careers. For example, the New York Jets selected safety Jamal Adams with the sixth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. Adams turned out to be an All-Pro defender…

To fully enjoy the 2025 NFL Draft, the best method is to completely admit that you know nothing. Even if you’re a draft junkie and spend months grinding film, reading profiles, and running your own mock drafts, it pales in comparison to the information NFL teams have—and they routinely mess it up. Detroit Lions general…

If you watched Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft, you already know that Detroit Lions’ 2024 first-round pick, Terrion Arnold, was in Green Bay for the event. Arnold announced the Lions’ third-round pick of WR Isaac TeSlaa. Before he announced the pick, he did a great job trolling the Packers fans in attendance:

Last month, we broke down the contracts for cornerback D.J. Reed and linebacker Derrick Barnes, pointing out a relatively new strategy the Detroit Lions are implementing: option bonuses. In short, option bonuses are decisions that teams make by a certain date to keep the player on the team (exercise the option bonus) or cut the…

Another year, another NFL Draft has come and gone. While the atmosphere wasn’t as electric and energetic as last year in Detroit, Green Bay did an alright job hosting the draft in 2025. The Detroit Lions won the NFC North divisional title in back-to-back years for the first time, and the other teams in the…

The Detroit Lions have been anything but passive in the middle rounds of the draft in the last three years. In 2023, Lions general manager Brad Holmes packaged two fifth-round picks to go from 122 to 96 in order to grab defensive tackle Brodric Martin. Last year, the Lions spent a future third-round pick in…

The Detroit Lions entered the 2025 NFL Draft with fewer holes in their roster than we have seen in any recent memory. There was no guarantee that whoever they selected in round one, let alone two, three, and beyond, would be a starter, let alone a star. That’s a far cry from the years where…

Without a doubt, the most polarizing move the Detroit Lions made in the 2025 NFL Draft was their aggressive trade up from 102 to the 70th pick in order to draft Arkansas wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa. That pick received the lowest grade from our fans, and it’s running away with the vote for “least favorite…

As we continue to dig into the Detroit Lions’ 2025 draft class, we wanted to give the entire staff a voice to share their overall thoughts on how Brad Holmes and company performed over the weekend. This is the first installment in a seven-part series of Lions draft superlatives. Here are the seven questions we’re…

The Detroit Lions traded a 2025 third-round pick and two 2026 third-round picks in order to select Isaac TeSlaa, a wide receiver out of Arkansas. TeSlaa is a Michigan native who played collegiately at Hillsdale College before transferring to the SEC. The Lions met with him throughout the pre-draft process and clearly loved him enough…

With the 2025 NFL Draft behind us, it’s an ideal time to take a look at the Detroit Lions roster and project where the team’s new players fit into the depth chart. During the draft, the Lions acquired seven new draft picks to their roster, and another reported 11 undrafted free agents—though that will put…

Things are not all doom and gloom for the Detroit Lions depth chart. While some players are at risk of losing a starting role or a roster spot, this post-draft period also highlights how beneficial the NFL Draft was for others. The Lions only had so many draft picks to play with, meaning not every…

Immediately following the Detroit Lions’ first-round selection of Ohio State defensive tackle Tyleik Williams, we published an SB Nation Reacts Survey asking fans for their grade of the pick. Most fans expected the Lions to draft a defensive lineman with their first selection—falling in line with the betting odds from the good folks over at…