The 2024 NFL Draft is complete and the Detroit Lions have added several new players to their offseason roster, making it a good time to revisit how things shook out after the three-day event. In the offseason, NFL rosters can expand up to 90 players and the Lions are near capacity, with 86 spots filled.…
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The NFL Draft is not just about which players get drafted. Oftentimes, it is the players that weren’t drafted that play a large role in the roster’s shape. Thanks to countless mock drafts, some positions were seen as sure-fire landing spots for rookie draft picks. Instead, these positions may have gone unaddressed in the draft.…
One of the Detroit Lions’ most fascinating picks in the 2024 NFL Draft was University of British Columbia offensive tackle Giovanni Manu. Some media members didn’t even have him on their radar and he was a late-rising prospect, but Detroit was convicted enough on his overall talent that they traded a 2025 third-round pick to…
Penei Sewell grew up in American Samoa, a long way—both physically and culturally—from Detroit. But just before he walked into the media room Monday, days after signing a contract that made him the highest-paid offensive tackle in football, Detroit Lions general manager wanted to make sure he had a touch of home. He greeted Sewell…
One of the Detroit Lions’ most fascinating picks in the 2024 NFL Draft was fourth-round pick Sione Vaki. He’s a do-it-all player who will almost certainly have an immediate impact as a four-phase special teamer—but he also has the experience and the skill set to potentially play on both offense and defense, too.
Following the conclusion of the 2024 NFL draft, the football community is scrambling to determine which teams had the most success. Traditionally, that means analysts assigning grades to players and the entire draft classes. But like everything related to the NFL Draft, for every opinion submitted, there is an analytical component that can also be…
,The overwhelming sense I get from Detroit Lions fans is that they do not care about draft grades anymore. That’s totally understandable after critics panned Detroit’s 2023 draft class, and then it turned out to be the best in football. Clearly, the public doesn’t have the breadth of knowledge that NFL general managers do, and…
The Detroit Lions’ 2024 draft class is in the books, and while undrafted free agents are still trickling in, the initial roster is starting to take shape. However, despite all the fresh faces that will join the Lions for the upcoming 2024 season and beyond, there are still a few positions on the roster that…
Watching the NFL Draft as a kid, I thought attending in person would have been a fun experience. Seeing the fans cheering on the picks and excited for their future seemed like something I wanted to do with my friends. In my high school speech class, we needed to make a bucket list and on…
Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes was certainly not afraid to trade up in the 2024 NFL Draft. Of the Lions’ six picks in the draft, four were the result of a trade up. Two of those four trades only involved a swap of 2024 draft capital, but in the other two transactions, Holmes dipped…
According to Michigan Wolverines reporter Anthony Broome, the Detroit Lions are signing Michigan kicker James Turner as an undrafted free agent. Over the weekend, the 2024 NFL Draft saw three kickers drafted—Alabama’s Will Reichard (Vikings), Stanford’s Joshua Karty (Rams), and Arkansas’ Cam Little (Jaguars)—all in the sixth round. The Lions opted to pass on the…
The Detroit Lions’ 2024 NFL Draft class will likely be known for the aggressiveness from the team’s front office. The Lions had six overall selections this year, and four of those picks were made after a trade up. Detroit spent 2024 third and seventh-round picks, and 2025 third and fourth-round picks to eventually get the…
The final estimates are out, and Detroit was an absolute hit as the venue for the 2024 NFL Draft. After smashing the Day 1 record with an estimated 275,000 people and following it up with around 220,000 on Friday, the NFL announced that the grand total of attendees for draft weekend in Detroit was 775,000,…
For the first time on Day 3 in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions didn’t trade up. Instead, they sat where they were and took Boston College guard Christian Mahogany in the sixth round. This was the last pick for the Lions in the 2024 draft, and it could have the longest-lasting impact on…